care. He was 78.“I relive it all the time,” Simone said of the fateful day on July 22. Halifax woman blames slow ambulance response in death of husband Keith had diabetes for nearly 40 years.
The night before he died, he hadn’t been feeling well and his sugars had been high recently. He had an appointment to see a doctor on the following Monday.He was still well enough to see some friends the evening of July 21.
It was a different story the next day.“That morning, he couldn’t even sit up in bed,” Simone recalled.With the help of two family members, they were able to get him into a wheelchair and take him to the emergency department at the Cobequid Community Health Centre in Sackville.“I looked in there, and it was packed,” she said.It was.