Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé says particulars surrounding the dying of an 86-year-old lady in an emergency room final week are “disturbing” and “unacceptable.”
First reported by TVA Nouvelles, the household of Gilberte Gosselin says she was left to die in a hallway of the emergency room at Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Lévis, Que., and spent 48 hours with out meals or water earlier than she died.
A spokesperson for Dubé says he has requested an evidence from the regional well being authority that oversees the hospital close to Quebec City the place the lady died on Feb. 23.
The regional well being authority referred to as the scenario “unfortunate” and says the hospital skilled “significant overcrowding” each within the emergency room and within the care models in the course of the interval that Gosselin was hospitalized.
A coroner has been assigned to analyze the circumstances surrounding the dying and the well being authority says the danger administration division and the complaints commissioner can even examine.
Dubé’s spokesperson says the Health Department can even look into Gosselin’s care, including that “situations like this must not happen.”
