>http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4070379
For any of you Canucks, when you see someone praise our shitty healthcare system, link them this
>Her name is Jamie-Lee Ball, but for five days last month during severe overcrowding at a Brampton, Ont., hospital, she was "Hallway Patient No. 1."
>Although she was bleeding internally and in "excruciating pain," Ball spent five days in a hallway of Brampton Civic Hospital on a stretcher with no pillow and just three thin curtains between her and a busy public area.
>It was really surprising," Ball said in an interview. "One of the comments that my mom made is that she felt like we were in a Third World country — deprived of a room, just lying on stretcher in the hallway."
>An ER doctor examined Ball and determined she was bleeding internally. The physician said she needed an IV and possibly a blood transfusion.
>But there were no rooms or even stretchers available. Ball was sent to the waiting room as her pain grew worse.
>"I got up from the wheelchair I was in and collapsed on the floor. I was in so much pain, I was screaming in pain and crying."
>Nurses found a stretcher, and Ball spent the next two days in the ER hallway. She was then transferred to what hospital staff called a "room" in the neurology unit.
>It was, in fact, another hallway.
