After more than a half day in a Montreal ER, a university student went home to Ontario for surgery
CTV
A 20-year-old Concordia University student says he waited 15 hours in the ER at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital after his appendix burst. Then, instead of waiting any longer, Christos Lianos says his parents decided to take him to a hospital in his home town of Kingston, Ont. where he had emergency surgery.
A 20-year-old Concordia University student says he waited for 15 hours in the ER at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital before heading west across the border to another hospital where he was diagnosed with appendicitis.
Christos Lianos says his parents decided to take him to a hospital in his home town of Kingston, Ont. where he had emergency surgery.
It all started in mid-june, when he says he suddenly fell sick and went to the Royal Victoria Hospital to see a doctor.
“I'm having a 40-degree fever and pain in my lower right abdomen and I think it's my appendix,” Lianos recounted to CTV.
Lianos says he was told to expect a 10-hour wait, and was twice given Tylonol for his pain.
“There were roughly 100 people in that waiting room,” he said. “I was told by one of the nurses that there were only two doctors available.”
After he spent over a dozen hours waiting, he says, his parents arrived from Kingston.
