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Re: Reader letter: Good friend’s emergency room wait was unacceptable, by Hodger Kretschmann, April 22
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My coronary heart goes out to Mr. Kretschmann’s buddy. My husband sadly is aware of too nicely what it means to go to the ER.
Just lately, my husband on Easter weekend went to the native ER at 3:30 a.m. He went in a taxi as a result of I can not drive at night time and he didn’t wish to awaken our son who lives in Windsor.
My husband has a nephrostomy tube in his remaining kidney and it wasn’t producing urine. That is very harmful.
Given the actual fact this was a vacation weekend my husband needed to wait till the next morning when an appointment was made for him and a radiologist changed the displaced tube. My husband was handled very kindly by the one who inserted a brand new tube.
However I’ve loads of questions.
Are the issues with the hospital ER due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Or has the pandemic merely introduced the issue to gentle? Why was there not a urologist on name who might substitute the tube?
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Why was it crucial to place my husband, who’s 75 years outdated, via 24 hours of maximum discomfort?
My husband has often acquired very high-quality care at each Windsor hospitals. One emergency room physician saved his life a number of years in the past. I’ve thanked him personally by letter. He went to nice lengths to take care of my husband. I’ll all the time love him for that.
I’m certain the medical care professionals working throughout this horrible time have suffered drastically, too. I don’t assume they’re the issue. All of them deserve our appreciation for the very arduous work they do to assist others.
Who’s duty is it to appropriate a damaged well being care system? The hospital? The province’s Ministry of Well being?
Or each?
Joan M. Jolin, Windsor
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