A middle-aged man died after waiting eight hours for care at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre, prompting a review from Manitoba's Health Minister.
Manitoba ’s Health Minister has ordered a review into the death this week of a middle-aged man who spent eight hours waiting for care at the emergency room of the province’s largest hospital, ultimately succumbing to his significantly worsening condition. The deputy minister, said the tragic death at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre on Tuesday has made it clear that the province needs to do more work to prevent such incidents from happening again.
But in a hastily called press conference late Wednesday, Mx. Asagwara declined to answer questions about the circumstances or injuries that led the man to arrive by ambulance at the hospital around midnight the day before, or why he had to wait there all night for treatment until his death that morning. The patient was triaged as not urgent, according to hospital officials, but his condition deteriorated overnight, and he could not be revived. “This is a tragedy and a devastating loss that should not have happened,” the minister said. “We need to learn from this.”after COVID-19 first struck nearly five years ago. However, patients dying while waiting for care are relatively rare occurrences., there have been multiple deaths in recent years among patients waiting for care in emergency departments: for example, at St. Boniface Hospital in January, 2024; Grace Hospital in November, 2023; and the Health Sciences Centre in February, 2023. Other provinces, including Alberta and Ontario, have also recorded deaths among patients awaiting timely care., who died in the same Winnipeg emergency room in 2008. An Indigenous man who was a double amputee, Mr. Sinclair died during a 34-hour wait from a treatable bladder infection. An inquest into his death led to the overhaul of 10 emergency departments across the province but was criticized for not addressing concerns of racism in the health system. M
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