In the Montreal Gazette’s feature Raw sewage backups at MUHC superhospital test relations with SNC-Lavalin.

Black sewer water that “smells worse than rotten fish” is backing up drains and pooling in patient bathrooms at the new Montreal Children’s Hospital, angering staff who say the problem is widespread and keeps popping up despite the fact that plumbers are called in regularly to snake the drains.

“There have been at least a dozen incidents where the following has happened, as high as the ninth floor,” said a source at the MUHC, who declined to have his or her name published for fear of reprisals.

Louis-Antoine Paquin, a spokesperson for SNC-Lavalin responded by saying, “It really has to do with the use of the toilets themselves — in other words, what people put in the toilets”.

It’s not the people!

The people are using the toilets of the new Montreal Children’s Hospital in the same way they used the toilets of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Chest Institute and are still using the toilets of the Montreal General Hospital, Lachine Hospital and Neuro in the same way.
 

Read the complete Montreal Gazette article.