The heartbroken wife of a 44-year-old Canada-based Indian man, Prashant Sreekumar, has accused Grey Nuns Hospital in southeast Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, of negligence in the demise of her husband.
Mr Sreekumar died of suspected cardiac arrest hours after complaining about severe chest pain and then waiting for eight hours at the hospital to get treatment, an Instagram video posted by CanadianInformed revealed.
The father of three died on December 22, after he was brought to the hospital after he complained of severe chest pain while at work.
His client drove him to the Grey Nuns Hospital in southeast Edmonton, where he was first checked in at triage before being asked to sit in the waiting room.
His wife alleged that despite telling the hospital staff that Mr Sreekumar was in severe pain, he was told to keep waiting, saying there was nothing of significance, after conducting an electrocardiogram (ECG) on him and giving him some Tylenol.
“He was sitting in the triage from 12.20 onwards till about, I would say 8.50 or till about 8.50 in the night. He was sitting in the triage complaining of constant chest pain. His blood pressure (BP) constantly kept on rising with the last reported blood pressure of 210. He was taken inside. He was only prescribed Tylenol during the entire waiting time that he was outside. And he was not given help. They said that chest pain is not considered acute,” Mr Sreekumar’s wife says in an Instagram video reviewed by Peoples Gazette.
Several commentators on the Instagram pages that posted about Mr Sreekumar’s death at the hospital, noted that the Canadian healthcare system was failing at a faster rate.
“I was there. He begged for help and they told him to go sit down and wait every time he approached the desk. He was on the floor asking time and time again and they said he needs to get away from the area for the other patients’ privacy as they were checked in. He was pacing and dry heaving whilst tapping his chest. Clearly in distress. I never want to see the inside of that ER again. I know what I saw,” cilantropist an Instagram user said in a screenshot attached to a post by rtncanada and rtngta on Instagram
Meanwhile, the Alberta government has ordered a review of the developments that led to Mr Sreekumar’s death.
Health minister Matt Jones said Acute Care Alberta and Covenant Health had been directed to jointly review the circumstances surrounding his death at Grey Nuns Community Hospital.
