In the winter of 2023, 80-year-old Yvon Brossoit was rushed by ambulance to a South Shore hospital after suffering severe abdominal pain and fainting.
For the next 11 hours, he sat in a wheelchair in Anna-Laberge Hospital’s overcrowded emergency room without being re-evaluated. Around 11:45 p.m., he went into cardiac arrest. An hour later, he was pronounced dead.
The Quebec coroner found Brossoit died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, but shed light on several organizational issues affecting the hospital’s ER at the time.
The Gazette’s Jesse Feith breaks it down.
