A man who witnessed the death of a patient in the waiting room of a Fredericton hospital’s emergency department this week says his province’s health-care system is “broken.”
John Staples, a residential support worker who witnessed the incident on July 11 around midnight, said on social media that the experience was a “stark and somber realization” that there is a need for major improvement to New Brunswick’s health care system.
Staples posted details of the scene on Facebook on July 12, which quickly went viral.
In an interview with The Canadian Press on July 13, Staples said he was at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital’s emergency room with a client when he saw a man who appeared to be in great discomfort as he waited for hours in a wheelchair and eventually appeared to fall asleep….