mental health issues. It took eight hours for Lexi to be assessed by a mental health professional.According to her family, after those eight hours a nurse told Lexi that calling a psychiatrist would take another two hours.The family said Lexi felt like a burden after she was asked something along the lines of, “Are you really going to make us call them?”Lexi went home that night, receiving no immediate help.
Less than a week later, she died. New Brunswick’s health-care discussion paper paints grim picture of health-care system Heartbroken, her mother decided to post Lexi’s story on Facebook.“I was angry too.