Danny & Anne Makhoul on Nova Scotia's South Shore while on vacation in August, 2022. The couple regularly visited the Maritimes.
An Ontario woman whose husband died in a New Brunswick hospital while on vacation in 2023 is urging Canadians to advocate for their loved ones waiting in emergency rooms, and calling on candidates in New Brunswick’s provincial election to address what she calls a crisis in health care. Three people died in ER waiting rooms in New Brunswick in 2022.Danny and Anne Makhoul on Nova Scotia's South Shore while on vacation in August, 2022.
Makhoul said she spent a terrifying 36 hours at the Moncton Hospital with her husband of 40 years in August 2023. Ambulance New Brunswick records show paramedics arrived within eight minutes, recorded Danny's pain as an eight out of 10, put in an IV and administered fluids and medication. They wrote in their notes that they did not give him Tylenol or Advil since he was vomiting.After providing care for an hour and 46 minutes, paramedics took Makhoul's husband to the Moncton Hospital; it took another 35 minutes to get there.
Makhoul spent the night repeatedly asking for pain medication and fluids — the IV inserted by the paramedics had been removed in the ER without explanation, she said. But her husband was only offered Tylenol, which she thought wasn't logical since he was vomiting. His medical records show the IV was reinserted at 8:45 a.m. when ordered by a doctor.
Records show Makhoul's vital signs were taken just after 2 a.m., when he arrived, again just before 6 a.m. and at 7:15 a.m., when his wife says she went to the nurses' station and begged them to do so. Makhoul filed a complaint with the Nurses Association of New Brunswick more than a year ago. She has not heard the outcome.
The PC Party did not respond to a request for comment from CBC News. PC Leader Blaine Higgs has said if re-elected he would
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