She screamed in pain
Woman (37) has to wait 7 hours for the emergency room – dead
A woman in Canada had to wait seven hours in the emergency room before she screamed in pain. But by the time the doctors had time for her, it was already too late. Her family is in shock.
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Alison Holthoff had to wait in the emergency room for seven hours before being attended to.
She screamed in pain, but nobody took care of Allison Holthoff († 37). The Canadian had to wait seven hours in the emergency room. After that, the doctors could only determine death.
On the morning of December 31, Holthoff woke up with a stomach ache. She wanted to take a bath to ease the pain. Since September 2022, the woman had been in pain again and again because she had fallen off her horse.
But the relaxing bath didn’t help. After about ten minutes, Allison Holthoff’s children called: “Mom needs help,” says husband Gunter Holthoff to the Canadian news channel CTV News Atlantic. He acted quickly and drove straight to the emergency room. He did not call the ambulance because they had to wait almost five hours when they fell off their horse.
They arrived at the hospital around eleven o’clock. The emergency room was totally overcrowded. Urine and blood samples were taken. Then nothing happened. hours passed. Finally, his wife collapsed on the floor. She screamed in pain. “I feel like I’m dying. You will let me die here », Holthoff remembers the words of his wife.
She was a “daredevil with a heart”
Suddenly everything happened very quickly. “It was the first time I felt that someone was paying attention to us.” A doctor examined her and sent her for an x-ray.
At the same time, his wife was getting worse and worse. She screamed, “I can’t breathe.” Shortly thereafter, her heart stopped beating. According to the hospital, Holthoff was revived three times. But it was no use. The mom of three died of internal bleeding, a later investigation revealed. Whether this is related to her riding injury is unclear.
A shock for the family. Holthoff knew his wife was ill, but not that she might die. She was a great woman, a “daredevil with a heart”, according to her husband. After Holthoff’s death, the family demanded that the situation in the hospitals change. The case also affected politicians. Measures should be taken as soon as possible so that nobody has to wait so many hours in the emergency room. The hospital has been struggling with staff shortages since October. (lrc)