After waiting seven hours for treatment, Canadian woman Allison Holthoff dies in hospital emergency room on New Year’s Eve.
Allison woke up on December 31 complaining about what she assumed was an upset stomach. Her pain worsened throughout the day, and after taking a bath to try to soothe her body she was left doubled up in pain on the floor.
Her husband, Gunter Holthoff, revealed how he had carried his wife to the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Nova Scotia’s Amherst town on his back and how they spent hours waiting in agony before the mother of three died.
‘We had reached the hospital at around 11 am but we didn’t get to see a doctor till after 6 pm,’ he said.
Reportedly during the preliminary examination that was conducted after 6 pm, Allison was asked to submit a urine sample, but by then the pain had gotten so bad that she fell to the bathroom floor while trying to prepare the sample.
She then had to be assisted by two people.
Security guards came by with a cup of water and gave her a blanket, and then she began telling her husband she thought she was dying.
Allison then ‘descended’ screaming into a cardiac arrest and it was discovered that she had been suffering from internal bleeding all along.
Allison was thrown off a horse back in September and had been complaining of back pains ever since.
Gunther said the hospital has still not released his wife’s cause of death to him, and he is demanding answers.
Following this, the family reached the heartbreaking decision to not operate, and the woman died twelve hours after their arrival at the hospital.
It is still not known what caused the internal bleeding. The incident has raised questions about Canadian healthcare.
Allison’s family, backed by Nova Scotia politicians, are demanding to know why she wasn’t taken care of for hours.
