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Patient dies in waiting room of N.B. emergency room, eyewitness speaks out

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Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton this week, after a Facebook post from a witness went viral.John Staples, who was in the waiting room on Tuesday, described the scene as a “stark and somber realization that our healthcare system is so sadly broken.”Global News spoke to Staples, who confirmed what he witnessed.

N.B. hospitals brace for summer service impacts as staff shortages continue He said in an interview that he arrived at the ER at around midnight, and the waiting room was fairly full.

Staples said he saw a person who appeared to be in physical discomfort sitting in a wheelchair.An hour had passed before a nurse emerged to check on that particular patient.

That’s when Staples noticed he wasn’t breathing.“Then three more people came out and they wheeled the individual back and called the code blue and it was confirmed that the individual had passed,” he said.He said the whole thing showed him just how dire the health-care situation is.“They say we have free health care.

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