Man Dies After Waiting 34 Hours for Hospital Care
The Winnipeg Sun has reported that the family of Brian Sinclair has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Winnipeg Region Health Authority citing the fact that Sinclair died after being forced to wait 34 hours without receiving any sort of care. The report states Sinclair suffered from an easily curable bladder infection and died as a result of that infection. The suit claims that medical staff blatantly ignored Sinclair and did not provide proper care for him despite the easily noticeable signs that he was very ill.
The report states that the medical facility argued that Sinclair did not immediately report to the triage desk to receive proper treatment but security video in the facility proved that to be untrue. Sinclair’s family is seeking $1.6 million in the lawsuit against the medical facility. The facility’s chief medical officer and 13 other medical staff members are named in the lawsuit, according to the story.
The fact that the medical facility in this incident blatantly disregarded Sinclair’s requests for care and neglected him demonstrates a blatant lack of rights for the patient. In any medical facility, a person has every right to receive the care that they require and should never be denied for any reason. In addition, the fact that the facility tried to cover up their negligence and argue that Sinclair never requested any care from the facility compounds the problem. A medical facility should be a place where people can be assured proper care and treatment for their ailments, not a place where a person could potentially be denied care for seemingly no reason at all.
