Family of N.S. woman who died after 7-hour ER wait suing health authority | 24CA News
The household of a Nova Scotia lady who died after a seven-hour wait at a Nova Scotia emergency room has launched a civil lawsuit towards the province’s well being authority.
Allison Holthoff, a 37-year-old mom of three, died on the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre emergency room on New Year’s Eve. Her husband, Gunter, informed reporters in January his spouse had been ready in excruciating ache on the Amherst hospital.
“She said, ‘I think I’m dying. Don’t let me die here,’” he mentioned.
Holthoff’s reason behind her demise has not been launched, and the well being authority is conducting a high quality evaluate investigation on the hospital’s emergency division.
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In a launch, Valent Legal mentioned it filed the lawsuit towards the Nova Scotia Health Authority with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on behalf of Holthoff’s household.
The lawsuit alleges the Nova Scotia Health authority “was negligent in failing to meet the standard of care in operating the emergency room, monitoring the waiting patients, triaging the patients properly, and conducting appropriate testing in a timely manner.”
The lawsuit additionally names the attending emergency room doctor as a defendant.
The household of Allison Holthoff is demanding solutions after the Nova Scotia lady died on the hospital in Amherst, N.S. following a seven-hour look forward to therapy.
In the discharge, lawyer Mike Dull mentioned Holthoff’s loss was “unimaginable and seemingly would have been entirely avoidable had reasonable care been taken to what was an obviously life-threatening situation.
““We hope that this legal action does two things: first, it provides this young family with acknowledgments of the failures and their resulting harms, and second, Allison’s death is not in vain,” Dull mentioned.
“We hope the legal action draws attention to seemingly systemic failures and encourages decision-makers to take steps to ensure that a similar tragedy does not occur again in our province.”
None of the allegations have been confirmed in courtroom.
Global News has contacted the well being authority for remark.
More to come back.
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