Steven Snively, one of the accused former paramedics, will testify in his own defence in the Ontario Superior Court trial. He's charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life for a shooting victim, Yosif Al-Hasnawi.
Christopher Marchant, one of the former paramedics charged with not properly caring for Yosif Al-Hasnawi the night he was shot and died, agrees that he feels partly responsible for his death. But he doesn't blame himself.
Posted: Dec 23, 2020 6:57 PM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
Paramedics told their dispatcher that Yosif Al-Hasnawi was having a psychiatric emergency. But Dr. Richard Verbeek, a medical director for Toronto paramedics, said their call to the hospital shows differently. (Samantha Craggs/CBC)
The defence of one of the paramedics accused of not properly caring for a dying patient in Hamilton says he s not disputing it was a mistake when the ambulance went to St. Joseph s Hospital.
Jeffrey Manishen said it appeared the former Hamilton paramedics in the landmark trial Christopher Marchant, 32, and Steven Snively, 55 thought the primary problem for gunshot victim Yosif Al-Hasnawi was a psychiatric emergency.
Posted: Dec 22, 2020 7:39 PM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
Yosif Al-Hasnawi recites the Qur an during a religious ceremony moments before he was shot outside his central Hamilton mosque on Dec. 2, 2017.(Al-Mustafa Islamic Centre)
A physician who edited the standards of care that Hamilton paramedics must follow says there were multiple signs that shooting victim Yosif Al-Hasnawi should have been transported to a lead trauma hospital as soon as possible.
But that didn t happen. In fact, the two former paramedics, who are now charged in connection with Al-Hasnawi s death, took 23 minutes to leave for St. Joseph s hospital on Dec. 2, 2017.
Dr. Richard Verbeek, medical director for Toronto paramedics at the Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Medicine, continued testifying on Tuesday at the trial of the two former paramedics. He is the latest and possibly last Crown witness in the landmark case, where first responders are criminally charged for their treatment of a patient.