LONG-TERM PATIENTS TO BE ALLOWED SECRET CAMERAS

QUEBEC

Quebec will allow residents in

provincially run long-term care home to secretly install cameras in their rooms. The cameras could monitor the quality of services being provided or spot cases of mistreatment. The directive was published in Quebec’s official gazette on Wednesday but still has to undergo a 90-day period of public consultations. Cameras would be prohibited from being used to record sound or images of other residents in the same room or to record outside the room. A support group that has long called for the cameras says it’s relieved the province has finally decided to take action. . Union spokesman Jeff Begley considers it a good initiative if it is able to flush out mistreatment and theft. But Begley’s fear is the cameras will be used to evaluate work.