Allison Holthoff, 37, died on December 31 at a Canadian hospital where she had been admitted for severe stomach pain: she waited seven hours for treatment and then died.
If it is true that the emergency rooms of Italian hospitals are often overcrowded due to staff shortages, it is also true that things are not always better abroad. For example, a sad tale of illness comes from Canada, where A woman died after waiting seven hours be treated in a crowded emergency room.
It was December 31 of last year. Allison Holthoff, At the age of 37, she had excruciating abdominal pain, so her husband – Gunter Holthoff – accompanied her to the Cumberland Regional Health Care Center in the city of Amherst. It was 11 a.m. when the two arrived in the emergency room waiting room, but while it was clear the woman was in severe pain for the next seven hours, no doctor or nurse was able to attend to her.
In an interview with CBS, Gunter said it wasn’t until 6 p.m. that a nurse approached his wife and asked her to do a urine test. But until then, Allison she couldn’t even sit still anymore: In fact, she fell to the floor in the bathroom and only got up thanks to two helpers.
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“I said a couple of times to the nurses and the receptionist: “My wife is getting worse and worse”and nothing happened,” said Holthoff. “So some Oss brought some blankets, a glass of water, and some ice.”
But things soon escalated, and Allison whispered to her husband: “I think I’m dying. Please don’t let me die here.”. It was only at this point that the 37-year-old was placed on a bed, but without the assistance of medical equipment. Suddenly she stopped breathing: at this point, desperate attempts to save her life proved utterly useless.