The province’s health minister apologized to the family of Brian Sinclair today for systematic failures that led to the man’s death after he waited 34 hours in an emergency room without receiving care in 2008.
Health Minister Sharon Blady said this morning in a statement, “the death of Mr. Brian Sinclair was a preventable tragedy.
“The system failed Mr. Sinclair and for that I humbly apologize to his family, friends and loved ones.”
Blady was responding to the release today of the judicial inquest report into the 45-year-old man’s death.
The double-amputee, confined to a wheelchair, sat in the Health Sciences Centre ER for 34 hours waiting for care that never came. An autopsy determined by the time Sinclair was discovered and rushed into the emergency department’s treatment area, rigor mortis was setting in and he may have been dead as long as seven hours.
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