Eyewitness Speaks Out on Patient Who Died in Waiting Room of Fredericton ER

Eyewitness Speaks Out on Patient Who Died in Waiting Room of Fredericton ER
Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital located in Fredericton, New Brunswick is shown on July 14, 2022. The Canadian Press/Kevin Bissett
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A man who witnessed the death of a patient in the waiting room of a Fredericton hospital’s emergency department this week says his province’s health-care system is “broken.”

John Staples, a residential support worker who witnessed the incident on July 11 around midnight, said on social media that the experience was a “stark and somber realization” that there is a need for major improvement to New Brunswick’s health care system.