A New Brunswick mother is raising concerns after she says her young daughter waited nearly 19 hours in a hospital emergency room with a broken wrist.
Amber Thompson was at work around noon on Monday when she got a call from her daughter’s school that she had fallen off the slide in the playground.
It was a drop of nearly two metres. Thompson rushed to pick up six-year-old Athena, who had been given a makeshift sling for her injured arm.
They went straight to the emergency room at Moncton’s Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre, not knowing what to expect. “The place was packed so I knew it was gonna be a little bit of a wait,” said Thompson. Read more: COVID-19: N.B.