难以想象这儿老人有这种待遇
An 86-year-old woman died last month on a hospital stretcher in Lévis, Que., after being offered practically nothing to eat or drink for at least 36 hours, her family says, and now they want answers.
"It was recommended that she be placed in an emergency room, pending a possible place in palliative care or geriatrics," said granddaughter Véronique Labonté.
"But she remained in that cursed corridor, between the screams of a woman in full psychosis and the vomiting of another."
Gilberte Gosselin was admitted to the emergency room of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis, located south of Quebec City, on Feb. 21 after falling at home. Doctors suspected she had broken her hip, the family said. So she was placed on a stretcher and was left waiting for care.
Labonté said her grandmother, who suffered from cognitive problems, was left in her stool for several hours. Some hospital employees were rude and wouldn't provide food or drink despite Gosselin's claims that she was hungry and thirsty, the granddaughter said.