A Nova Scotia mayor says a patient died last week in his Annapolis Valley town after going into cardiac arrest at a hospital where no doctor was present.
Mayor Sylvester Atkinson of Middleton, N.S., says volunteer firefighters were called to the Soldiers Memorial Hospital to attend to a patient because the closest doctor was 30 minutes away.
Atkinson made the comments in a letter to Premier Tim Houston that was published Tuesday on social media. The letter says the fire department was called to the hospital around 9 p.m. on June 15.
“Our fire department was informed there was no doctor on site, nor was there one on call,” he wrote, adding that a doctor was en route to the hospital….