Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Canadian Healthcare: Yes We Can!

At least the care was free!

Health officials are still investigating how a man found dead at the Health Sciences Centre ER waiting area escaped the attention of medical staff for 34 hours.

"Staff weren't aware he was waiting for care," said Dr. Brock Wright, chief operating officer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, at a news conference this morning. "They didn't know he was in the queue waiting to be seen."

Wright said the man had been dead "for a number of hours" before he was brought to the attention of medical staff early Sunday morning.

The 45-year-old man, who has not yet been identified, did not register with the triage desk after being dropped off at the hospital by car, Wright said.

"We have never had a situation where somebody hadn't made it to the triage desk. Clearly that is a gap."
Hat tip to Van Helsing at Moonbattery who opines:
For the sake of efficiency, maybe bureaucrats could pass a new regulation requiring the really sick patients to wait in the morgue.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Presumably the woman at this hospital in Brooklyn didn't get charged either.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/waiting.room.death/index.html

Roug said...

I'm a bit uncomfortable with bureaucrats running the health care system, be it in Canada or NYC.

Maybe they were able to check her pockets for loose change.