Deficit continues to grow at the MUHC

The MUHC has some explaining to do.

According to the Gazette, the growing deficit for the McGill University Health Centre's fiscal year reached $115 million dollars after an irregular payment schedule was uncovered.

According to a government-commissioned report, employees who worked for over six hundred thousand hours for the McGill University Health Centre were actually paid for almost nine hundred thousand hours.

A report made by Dr. Michel Baron, the former dean of medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke, says that excessive labour costs is one of the main causes of the deficit of the MUHC.

Baron also said that none of the work hours was authorized in the MUHC’s budgets. And paying for the non-authorized work-hours will add over thirty million dollars to the MUHC’s deficit.

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STORY WRITTEN BY: ISABELLA SASAKI