A Saskatoon family says the health-care system failed their 25-year-old son in the months leading to a fatal assault on his girlfriend.
The young couple moved in together in the summer of 2021. Bryan said his son began having "intrusive thoughts" by late fall."He talked to her [in December] and let her know that he was having these intrusive thoughts. And that's when [she] and Thomas came to us and let us know."
Sanche took Thomas to the emergency room at Royal University Hospital on Dec. 18 and then again on Feb. 9. The first trip came after speaking with Thomas's psychologist, who was concerned that he was in a "mental health crisis" and should go to a hospital, the timeline said. "And so those of us who love him, we could see the signs of agitation or anxiety building up in him. But someone who doesn't know him can't magically read his mind.""We were hoping he'd be admitted to the Dube Centre, where he could be in a secure place and get some professional help. Hopefully see a psychiatrist and help to determine what's going on so that these things could be addressed medically first, and then through counselling," she said.
"They took him to the correctional centre where they put him in a jail cell, still not mentally stable from the psychosis or whatever. It started all of this. So it went from a traumatic situation to adding more and more layers of trauma. And now, a month later, he is still in the corrections centre. He's on a med unit on suicide watch."
The Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford, the province's main inpatient mental health facility, includes 188 psychiatric rehabilitation beds and a 96-room secure wing for offenders living with mental health issues. Government data from April 1 shows 48 of the 96 corrections beds and 166 of the 188 non-corrections rehabilitation beds were operational.
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