Julia Malott says she’s angry it took 19 hours — including waiting in emergency rooms in two hospitals in Kitchener, Ont. — to get care for her teenage daughter Angelina, who was suffering with appendicitis.
“I think that any parent would understand that feeling of wanting to make something better for your child and not being able to,” Malott told CBC News.
“This felt so backwards because the resources were right there, but we couldn’t get to them. We couldn’t do what needed to be done.”
Around 10 p.m. ET on Sunday, Angelina couldn’t shake the stomach pain that began earlier in the day.
The mother and daughter went to the emergency department at
