FREDERICTON New Brunswick’s department of health confirms that a report into emergency room services has been given to Health Minister Dorothy Shephard. The review was ordered after the death of 16-year-old Lexi Daken. Daken waited in the Everett Chalmers Hospital emergency room in Fredericton for over eight hours with her guidance counsellor to see a psychiatrist – and never saw one. She died by suicide six days later, on Feb. 24. Her family believes had she gotten the help she needed at the hospital E.R., she would still be alive. Two days after her death, the vice-president at Horizon Health Network called the situation “nothing short of a tragedy.”
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murder. he remains in prison pending a bail hearing set for May 28
Baker appeared in court yesterday morning by video from Dorchester
Penitentiary, where his lawyer said he hadn’t been able to to talk to him for
various reason so he requested the case be adjourned for several weeks to
give him time to speak to his client and prepare for the hearing.
Baker’s parole was revoked following his arrest and he was held in prison for
several weeks before charges were laid in late February.
According to CBC – Baker also faces charges related to other alleged crimes
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Hillary Hooper, seen here with her beloved dog, Blue, died by suicide at the Saint John Regional Hospital in December after numerous attempts to get help for depression. (Submitted by Patty Borthwick)
Hillary Hooper was so desperate to find help for her depression last September that she took her boyfriend s gun in the middle of the night, drove to the local high school, cut both of her wrists and called 911.
The 27-year-old resident of St. George, N.B., said she had a gun and wanted to kill herself. She pleaded for help.
Leaving the gun inside the vehicle, she stood outside, waiting for the RCMP to arrive. Blood dripped down her forearms as she raised her hands in the air in front of the officers who responded with their guns drawn.
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