Critical incidents: Provincial report details deaths, mishaps, gaps in First Nations care – CBC

Health-care system ‘doesn’t meet the needs of a lot of Northern Manitoba First Nations’: Sheila North

A patient went to a federal nursing station with jaundice and in respiratory distress, was sent by air ambulance to a regional health centre, waited 3½ hours to see a doctor, then died after another transfer to a tertiary care hospital less than 24 hours later.

A premature infant was given 10 times the ordered dose of IV morphine, had to stay longer on mechanical ventilation and may have suffered long-term damage.

Another patient lived for 14 years with mouth cancer before being diagnosed, despite a pathology report that should have led to a diagnosis right away, resulting in a more extensive surgery.

Rad More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/critical-health-incidents-manitoba-1.4489028