The Quebec coroner’s office has opened an investigation into the death of yet another patient waiting for care at the Anna-Laberge hospital in Châteauguay, Que.
A 41-year-old man died Wednesday in the emergency room of the hospital on Montreal’s South Shore after he waited 45 minutes with chest pain for an ambulance.
His death marks the third in the hospital’s ER in the span of a few months. Two patients died in November while waiting for care.
“This is not normal,” said Gaétan Dutil, president of the paramedics’ union in the Montérégie region.
Dutil said the man’s case was classified as Priority 3, meaning his condition presented some risks but was non-life threatening.
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