EMERGENCY ROOM MURDER?

Perhaps the title would have been more accurate as Emergency Room Bias or Emergency Room Chaos? Regardless today's Waterloo Region Record has a horrific story of a Manitoba man who died unnecessarily after being ignored for 34 hours in a hospital emergency room. The title of the story is "Manitoba inquest investigates why man who died had 34-hour ER wait". Brian Sinclair went to the emergency room of Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre on Sept. 19, 2008. He had a diagnosed bladder infection which required his catheter being replaced plus antibiotics to fight the infection. He received nothing except a death sentence. Mr. Sinclair was of aboriginal descent and the family lawyer believes that was a factor. This afterall is Winnipeg where even the police have been alleged to drop off inebriated aboriginals in the dead of winter, miles from shelter.

With or without ethnic bias this case is disgusting and horrific. There is currently an inquest under way five years after his death. Similar to the Ashley Smith case here in Waterloo Region, apparently delaying these official investigations gives the guilty parties time to get their stories straight and ducks in a row. Shame on the lot of them. There is no excuse or reason for this kind of behaviour.