Wednesday's letters: UCP should focus on hospitals, not separation

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prashant sreekumar — Prashant Sreekumar, 44, died at Grey Nuns Community Hospital on Dec. 22. He came into the emergency room complaining of chest pain and waited eight hours to be seen. He died shortly after. Supplied photos

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I could not sleep when I heard a man died in the Grey Nuns ER. He had been waiting for eight hours with his wife. I cannot imagine a more inhumane way to die. I cannot imagine what the wife went through.

He probably should have gone to the emergency veterinarian clinic where he would have likely got more assistance. We can blame the hospital. Perhaps, they should use a triage system where urgent cases are attended to first. If they have such a system in place, they should use it. Hospital staff are under immense strain.

The population of Edmonton and Alberta has increased, but not the medical services. I blame the Alberta government which has been doing a terrible job with both education and medical services. Perhaps, their attention has been elsewhere with pipelines and breaking away from Canada.

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There is no excuse for a man going to a hospital expecting medical assistance and not being attended to. This feels more like a Third World country scenario. I am proud to be a Canadian, and I used to feel the same way about being an Albertan and Edmontonian. Our province needs leadership that puts people first, all Albertans. So there are no more needless, preventative deaths in the news.

Thanks to kindhearted diners

Would like to thank the lovely couple that paid for myself and my health-care nurse and dear friend for the last 31 years, drinks and the meal when we celebrated our birthdays last month on Nov. 10, at the Black Pearl restaurant.

They told the waitress to wait until they had left before letting us know. They had been sitting next to us and must have overheard our birthday celebration and our conversation on our recent health issues that we were both recovering from this last year. Her, a stroke and myself open heart surgery.

When they did get up to leave, they did say that they had overheard it was our birthdays and wished us all the best which we thought was very nice but had no idea that they had paid our bill besides. We left a generous tip and mentioned to our waitress that if she ever saw them there again to make sure that she bought them a drink and that we were happy to know there are still lots of wonderful people out there.

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