Senior who had heart attack says treatment during air transport to Winnipeg was 'inhumane'

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A Brandon, Man., senior says the conditions of her air ambulance trip to Winnipeg last month were “totally inhumane” and she thought she would die before getting there.

Eleanor Buechler, 79, went to the Brandon Regional Health Centre because of pain in her chest on Feb. 1. She was diagnosed with a heart attack and was airlifted to Winnipeg two days later to receive an angiogram at St. Boniface hospital.

An angiogram is a diagnostic test that takes X-ray pictures of the coronary arteries and the vessels that supply blood to the heart. Buechler said she was sent for the procedure to determine

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