Heart attack patient waits 13 hours in Moncton Hospital ER – CBC

‘You always hear stories, then it actually happens to you,’ man says of ordeal

Jul 21, 2025

Jonah Imeson says he’d heard plenty of stories about people waiting for hours in New Brunswick’s emergency rooms and even dying before being seen by a physician, but then he had his own scare and he’s still shaken.

The 35-year-old graphic designer, with Type 2 diabetes, said he waited 13 hours at the Moncton Hospital ER with chest discomfort, arm pain, nausea, high blood pressure and a sensation like heartburn before he was seen by a doctor, who told him he’d likely had a heart attack and could have died.

Imeson’s story puts a face to the untold number of patients in New Brunswick who wait far too long in a hospital system that has openly declared a critical state of over-capacity.

And although the Moncton Hospital has been left out of a new protocol demanding some hospital patients be fast-tracked into nursing homes — to help free up beds, including those in ERs — Horizon’s dashboard paints a troubling picture.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/emergency-room-wait-times-moncton-hospital-1.7585635