Fire Department Called to Assist Dying Patient in NS Hospital With No Doctor

Fire Department Called to Assist Dying Patient in NS Hospital With No Doctor
A sign for a hospital in Montreal, Feb. 6, 2022. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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A Nova Scotia mayor says a patient died last week in his Annapolis Valley town after going into cardiac arrest at a hospital where no doctor was present.

Mayor Sylvester Atkinson of Middleton, N.S., says volunteer firefighters were called to the Soldiers Memorial Hospital to attend to a patient because the closest doctor was 30 minutes away.