WHA claims homeless man had no rights because he died
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Do you look like a a street bum, will you follow through with your treatment, eat well, will avoid drinking Salon Selectives hairspray not compromising your over all health and immune system in the process of treatment? No? Then sure go ahead have a couple while out for dinner.
And if I DID look like a street bum, it's okay to ignore me and let me die of infection? See, your way of thinking is exactly why I think this family has every right to push a law suit.
Was he ignored? He just sat there like a lump in a chair and was never fed, had temp taken or tended to in any way shape or form?
WINNIPEG - Video footage disclosed recently by the province's chief medical examiner shows a Winnipeg man who died after waiting 34 hours in an emergency room may have been triaged by hospital staff.
If so, the footage would disprove earlier claims by both the province and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority that the man, 45-year-old Brian Sinclair, escaped the attention of staff at Health Sciences Centre because he was never entered into the triage system upon arriving there on Sept. 19.
The chief medical examiner has called an inquest into Sinclair's death, which has already prompted a new wristband tagging system at HSC.
Provincial Tory leader Hugh McFadyen and health critic Myrna Driedger are expected to comment on the matter today at 12:30 p.m.
WINNIPEG - Video footage disclosed recently by the province's chief medical examiner shows a Winnipeg man who died after waiting 34 hours in an emergency room may have been triaged by hospital staff.
If so, the footage would disprove earlier claims by both the province and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority that the man, 45-year-old Brian Sinclair, escaped the attention of staff at Health Sciences Centre because he was never entered into the triage system upon arriving there on Sept. 19.
The chief medical examiner has called an inquest into Sinclair's death, which has already prompted a new wristband tagging system at HSC.
Provincial Tory leader Hugh McFadyen and health critic Myrna Driedger are expected to comment on the matter today at 12:30 p.m.
I haven't been able to turn up all the details of their inquest, but I do know that they have referred the file to out of province for input on whether or not criminal charges should be brought up over what the inquest found as far as circumstances surrounding his death.
Although the 45-year-old man – who CTV Winnipeg identified as a double amputee named Brian Sinclair – was "a regular" at the emergency room
That would be the typical treatment in an ER waiting room for a non-life-threataning illness.
I think this guy's family has a grounds for a lawsuit --- not because he was homeless but just gross neglect.
If they had concerns about his treatment or needed to sober him up, he should have been in a bed where he could be monitored until proper treatment could be administered. At some point the risk of waiting until he was sober would have been greater than the risk of immediate treatment. The problem was that he was still in the waiting room unattended when that happened.
Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!
Is his family the reason there hasn't been an inquest?
Aren't inquests about getting all the facts (truth)?
No doubt... Why speed through traffic to chase an ambulance when you can just hang out at the ER where they'll eventually be?
Sounds to me that the legal shenanigans are probably delaying the inquest. Not sure on what condition an inquest is held. Probably up to the Cornanor to decide if one is warranted.