In Crowded NB Hospital, 88-Year-Old Awaiting Nursing Home Placed in Supply Room

In Crowded NB Hospital, 88-Year-Old Awaiting Nursing Home Placed in Supply Room
Irene MacNeill, 88, of Barnesville, N.B., lays in bed as nurses move the bed to access an electrical outlet after she was placed in a supply room at an over capacity Saint John Regional Hospital, in Saint John, N.B., in a Dec. 15, 2022, handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO-Karen Totten
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The daughter of an 88-year-old woman who spent part of Thursday in a supply room at an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital says she’s alarmed by the shortages of space and staff in the province’s health facilities.
Karen Totten photographed her mother Irene MacNeill of Barnesville, N.B., lying in a supply room at the Saint John Regional Hospital, with a bed sheet hung up to give her some privacy and wearing dark glasses to help her rest in an area where lights couldn’t be dimmed. The image shows the woman surrounded by boxes and medical supplies.