The transcript from a dispatch call shows Margaret Melanson, CEO of Horizon Health Network, asked Ambulance N.B. to transport a patient to Saint John, even though doing so would be against the corporation's protocol.
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has personally waded into issues with the province's health-care system following public complaints by the family of a man who was sent home from an emergency room with a broken neck six hours after first getting seen.
The family of John Barnet wants answers and an apology after he was discharged from a Fredericton hospital six hours after he was treated in the ER for a broken neck and sternum.