At 7 a.m., Fatima Radics and her two-day-old baby Ophelia became the first patients to arrive at the hospital as part of a major operation to transfer patients to the newly-built Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal, or CHUM. On Sunday, it took just over three hours to transfer 113 patients from the aging Saint-Luc Hospital. They included five babies, four intensive care patients, and a pregnant woman in labour, according to the hospital’s president. Sunday marked the official closure of Saint-Luc, founded in 1908, as its patients were transferred to the just-open Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal, or CHUM. Saint-Luc is the first of three hospitals to be incorporated into the new hospital.

Source: thestar October 09, 2017 01:41 UTC