Inquest called into Indigenous woman’s death at St. Catharines Hospital in 2021 – CHCH
June 6, 2024
Ontario’s coroner has called for an inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman two and a half years after she died in the St. Catharines Hospital’s emergency room.
Heather Winterstein, 24, went to the ER with severe back pain on Dec. 9, 2021.
Her mother told CHCH News that Heather was given Tylenol and sent home.
The following day, Heather returned to hospital with more pain and died there.
St. Catharines NDP MPP Jennie Stevens posted on social media that Heather’s death was “tragic and entirely preventable.”
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