May 1, 2024
A Nova Scotia man who suffered a medical emergency while on an international trip is now stuck abroad after his family was told no hospitals could admit him back home due to a lack of available beds.
Murray Balser was on vacation with his family in Cuba earlier this month when he broke his hip on a boating excursion. Due to a shortage of available beds in Nova Scotia, he had to stay in a Cuban hospital for a week and a half.
“We had the insurance. We thought we were covered,” said Tammy Fader, Balser’s sister-in-law.
“We never in a million years would have thought we would have been denied coming back because there was no bed in our own province, in our own country.”
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/10460063/injured-man-abroad-hospital-beds/