Revised financial report, troublesome for MUHC

New reports reveal more serious financial problems at the McGill University Health Centre.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the MUHC expects to be at least 53 million dollars in deficit in 2013.

That’s more than double the amount disclosed at their annual general meeting on Dec. 3, which tallied the MUHC’s operating deficit at 29.3 million dollars.

The health network is responding by examining its expenses with an internal audit of its own, according to a staff-wide email from MUHC executive director Norman Rinfret.

The Montreal Gazette also reported that the MUHC plans to reduce primary and secondary care services in an attempt to cut costs.

The deficit is one of several financial troubles plaguing the MUHC.

A committee set up by the Quebec government in September is expected to release a report on the MUHC’s finances this week.

The committee was charged with determining whether or not the MUHC was defrauded over a 2011 real-estate transaction.

The MUHC has also been implication in the Charbonneau Commission’s investigations.

Documents unearthed in polices raids on MUHC offices in September led to the arrest of Pierre Duhaime.

Duhaime is former CEO of SNC-Lavalin, the construction company contacted to design and build the billion dollar superhospital.

He now faces charges for defrauding the MUHC.

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STORY WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA TREMBLAY