Edmonton Father Dies In Hospital E.r. Waiting To See A Doctor

A family is grieving aft a 44-year-old begetter of 3 died successful an Edmonton infirmary emergency room waiting area.

On Monday, Dec. 22, Prashant Sreekumar began experiencing terrible thorax pains while astatine work.

A customer drove him to nan Grey Nuns Hospital successful southeast Edmonton, wherever Sreekumar was checked successful astatine triage and past took a spot successful nan waiting room. His father, Kumar Sreekumar, soon arrived.

“He told me, ‘Papa, I cannot carnivore nan pain,'” Kumar said.

Kumar said his boy told him and infirmary unit nan symptom was a 15 retired of 10. They did an electrocardiogram (ECG) connected him to cheque his heart’s function, but nan family said Prashant was told location was thing of value and to support waiting.

Staff besides offered Prashant immoderate Tylenol for his pain.

He waited, and waited immoderate more.

Kumar said arsenic clip passed, nurses would cheque Prashant’s humor pressure.

“It went up, up, and up. To me, it was done nan roof.”

More than 8 hours went by earlier Prashant was called into nan curen area.

“After sitting possibly 10 seconds, he looked astatine me, he sewage up and put his manus connected his thorax and conscionable crashed,” Kumar said.

Nurses called for thief but it was excessively late. Prashant died of an evident cardiac arrest.

Prashant leaves down his wife, and 3 children ages three, 10 and 14. The family loved to recreation together and said Prashant was a “goofball” pinch his kids.

“He was for his family, for his kids, he was truthful nice. Anybody who talked to him said, ‘We don’t cognize a amended than him,'” Kumar said.

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Family and friends want answers complete really could a man pinch terrible thorax symptom could autumn done nan cracks successful specified a shocking way.

Family friend Varinder Bhullar, who who would usage Prashant’s accounting services, said this is simply a immense nonaccomplishment for nan community. He is devastated astatine what happened.

“We expect amended from nan infirmary and health-care system,” Bhullar said.

The Grey Nuns Hospital is tally by Covenant Health.

The statement told Global News successful an email that it wouldn’t remark connected nan specifics surrounding diligent attraction because of privacy, but did opportunity nan lawsuit is earlier nan Office of nan Chief Medical Examiner.

“We connection our sympathy to nan patient’s family and friends. There is thing much important than nan information and attraction of our patients and staff,” nan connection said.

As family effort to retrieve Prashant for each nan bully he brought them, they opportunity they will ever beryllium haunted by really he died successful symptom — successful a infirmary — without ever seeing a doctor.

“They took my babe for nothing. For nothing,” Kumar said.