Body forgotten in Vic ER
A zipped-up body was put in a closed room and overlooked for hours at the Royal Vic emergency department, overcrowding and understaffing as usual to blame.
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MarcG 12:01 on 2024-05-16 Permalink
Let’s not forget Covid-induced fatigue, shortness of breath, concentration problems, memory loss and brain fog.
Meezly 13:46 on 2024-05-16 Permalink
Mistakes can happen. It’s awful but at least the body was already dead. Just don’t let it happen to living patients.
Major Annoyance 02:42 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
Slow news day I guess. Wait’ll you get to the morgue. Things move even slower still.
Joey 09:23 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
@Major there was a story in the news last week about the backlog in processing death certificates – you’d think it would be fairly straightforward for the province to issue a piece of paper that says that someone is, in fact, no longer alive. One person had been waiting 80 business days (the government’s target is 20 days) without receiving the certificate, without which not much can be done with the deceased’s estate – a major problem if there are financial obligations. Similarly, someone mentioned to me the other day that the current wait time for a divorce certificate (i.e., after the parties had submitted a mutually agreed upon divorce agreement to the court for a judge to approve) was 10 months, which is similarly nuts.
Kate 09:52 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
Here’s CBC on death certificate delay, from March, and La Presse from a week ago.
Also, a piece about the Quebec government rejecting a death certificate which it had issued itself – in English.
Ian 17:11 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
My father died about a month ago. The funeral home told me to expect to wait up to 6 months to receive the death certificate. We cannot process the estate or access his accounts to figure out how to pay his taxes (etc) until we receive it. That SHOULD be news. It’s ridiculous.
Losing a body in a hospital is a bad joke, and it’s not a slwo news day item – it’s precisely this kind of “yawn” reaction that the government hopes for so the crisis in healthcare can be hand-waved away. You work for the ministry, MA?
Kate 18:47 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
Ian, my condolences.
Is that delay happening in Quebec?
Kevin 18:52 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
Ian
My condolences on your loss.
Ian 23:28 on 2024-05-17 Permalink
@Kate yes,.right here in Montreal.
Thank you, both of you.it wasn’t unexpected but in many ways such as this keeps being surprising.