A patient’s death this week in the waiting room of a Fredericton hospital’s emergency department is prompting calls for major improvements to New Brunswick’s health care system
The death of a patient in the waiting room of a Fredericton hospital’s emergency department this week is prompting calls for major improvements to the province’s health care system.
“The ER attendant came out to check on people and checked on him,” Staples said in an interview Wednesday. “She scurried back to the ER very professionally, not to raise any alarms and came back with a few other people. They wheeled him to the back and as they did, they called a Code Blue,” he said, referring to the hospital code for a cardiac or respiratory arrest.
“I think there needs to be a really long, hard look at what we’ve had in place for health care. Why are people dying in the waiting rooms? I saw people leave the emergency room without being seen because they were frustrated with the long wait time,” he said. “Premier Higgs needs to stop whining to the federal government, demand that his minister of health resign and get on with saving our health-care system before it’s too late,” D’Amours said. Higgs was in Victoria this week where Canada’s premiers called on the federal government to discuss the future of health-care funding.
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