A New Brunswick health network and two nurses are denying all allegations of negligence in a lawsuit filed by the family of a 78-year-old man who died while waiting for care in a Fredericton emergency room.
A New Brunswick health network and two nurses named in a lawsuit by the family of a 78-year-old man who died waiting for care in a Fredericton emergency room deny all allegations against them and are asking for the claim to be dismissed.
The retired diplomat arrived in an ambulance at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital on July 11, 2022, and about seven hours later a nurse found him in the waiting room, unresponsive and slumped in his wheelchair. A coroner’s inquest in April found that Mesheau died of heart failure. Knowles was assigned to the hospital’s “psychiatric pod” and, at times, helped with monitoring patients in the emergency department waiting room, the document says. It denies the allegations that Mesheau’s medical history was not recorded and that he was only assessed twice after being triaged.
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