Family members of Akeem Scott, a young Black man who died after waiting several hours in a Montreal hospital emergency waiting room have asked for a formal revision of the Quebec’s nurses order decision not to discipline the nurses who triaged him.
Scott, 26, died in June 2019 of acute peritonitis, a life-threatening but treatable condition, after giving up and leaving the Jewish General Hospital’s emergency department in pain and frustration.
He had arrived by ambulance with severe stomach pain and vomiting, but despite spending some of that time lying on the floor in agonizing pain, he was not seen by a doctor in the several hours he waited
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