Akeem Scott's family is appealing a decision not to discipline the nurses who triaged him in the emergency room before he died. Scott was left unattended for hours at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital and died just hours after he left.
The family of a man who died after an hours-long wait in the ER at a Montreal hospital is calling for a review of a decision that cleared the nurses who saw him of any wrongdoing.
Families demand new inquiries into hospitals treatment of loved ones Coroner Karine Spénard recused herself from an ongoing case after the deceased s family expressed a lack of confidence in her impartiality.
Author of the article: Michelle Lalonde • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 17, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Gilda Macarine s mother, Candida Macarine, was found dead on the floor by nurses at the Lakeshore General Hospital on Feb. 27, 2021. She had been admitted two hours earlier in respiratory distress and was put in a room nurses had flagged as difficult to monitor. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette
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The coroner investigating the death of an 86-year-old woman at the Lakeshore General Hospital has recused herself from the case, after the family of the woman expressed concerns about the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Akeem Scott died on June 21, 2019 of acute peritonitis, a life-threatening but treatable condition, hours after leaving the Jewish General Hospital’s emergency department.