Numbers newly released by the NDP show the last three months of 2022 had more ER deaths than any other quarter in the last six years. In January, changes were announced to emergency departments, but critics say they're not being implemented fast enough.
The family of a 37-year-old woman who died after waiting hours for treatment at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Amherst, N.S., on Dec. 31, 2022, is suing the province s health authority in order to get answers into her death.
With a renewed scrutiny on Nova Scotia's emergency departments, experts say the problems of overcrowding and long wait times stem from issues elsewhere in the health-care system.