Seeking solutions: Nova Scotia ER death prompts debate
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The death of a mother at a Nova Scotia hospital following an hours-long wait in the emergency room is sparking debate about what changes need to be made to prevent a future tragedy.
The death of a mother at a Nova Scotia hospital following an hours-long wait in the emergency room is sparking debate about what changes need to be made to prevent a future tragedy.
Some ideas are already being suggested, but front-line workers say the problem goes much deeper.
Ten days after 37-year-old Allison Holthoff died in a Nova Scotia emergency room, her husband Günter Holthoff still doesn't know his wife's official cause of death.
It's one of the questions that continue to haunt him, and one of the reasons he shared their story with the rest of Canada Monday.
Allison complained she wasn't feeling well on New Year's Eve, with ever-increasing pain in her abdomen.
Günter wound up taking her to the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre, where her condition worsened.
Seven hours later, the mother of three and deputy fire chief was dead.
