MUHC investigating death of Indigenous woman who left hospital without being treated – CBC

Family says care would have alleviated pain and suffering woman endured for weeks before dying

Jul 26, 2017

An Indigenous woman whose medical insurance card had been stolen walked into Montreal’s McGill University Health Centre last February, only to walk out again when she was told it would cost more than $1,000 to see a doctor.

Kimberly Gloade, 44, died at home around two months later from cirrhosis. Now her family wants to know why no one at the hospital made it clear to Gloade that her inability to pay should not have stopped her from receiving medical care.

“We would have understood and wouldn’t have felt the way we feel today if the health services — if the hospital she went to and the nurse at the administration — would have tried to help her,” her uncle, Jason Barnaby, told CBC News from Burnt Church First Nation, N.B., where Gloade was from.

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