Alberta family mourns after relative dies hours after hospital discharge - BERITAJA

A Calgary family is speaking retired aft their uncle’s untimely decease conscionable hours aft he was discharged from a confederate Alberta hospital.

They opportunity 59-year-old Phuong Nguyen was taken to the Brooks Health Centre for an appraisal connected the greeting of April 18th aft he knowledgeable thorax pains.

“They did ultrasound, they did bosom onslaught test,” says Phuong’s niece, Nhi Nguyen. “They ran ECG but everything went normal.”

Nhi says her uncle was discharged pinch a medicine aft being treated for tummy symptom pursuing the eight-hour enactment successful the hospital. However, she believes he shouldn’t person been sent home, saying that he was successful nary information to leave.

“He still complaining about thorax pain,” she says. “He said that the symptom really is passim each complete his body, particularly numbness successful his legs.”

Nhi says her uncle couldn’t locomotion truthful she and her begetter had to assistance him to the car earlier making the travel location to Calgary. They would only make it about 20 minutes on Highway 1 earlier she had to telephone 911, aft Phuong stopped breathing.

“We saw his look already move purple and past they counsel maine to do CPR connected him,” she says.

Among the first responders included the County of Newell Fire Service, who confirmed that its “team provided support until the individual was successful the attraction of EMS.”

EHS-Alberta paramedics tells BERITAJA that they transported 1 big successful life-threatening information to the Bassano Health Centre.

The family says that’s wherever their uncle died. They besides opportunity Phuong had a pre-existing bosom condition.

“The aesculapian history was there. Why didn’t he do thing else?” says Nih.

“The result would person been different had he been taken seriously,” says Phuong’s nephew, Khai Luu.

Alberta Health Services wouldn’t remark connected this circumstantial incident retired of respect for diligent privacy.

In a connection to BERITAJA, it says, “We return situations for illustration this very seriously. Incidents specified arsenic this are reviewed done established processes to amended understand the circumstances involved, including the attraction provided and the objective decisions made, and to place opportunities to fortify diligent information and value of care.”

Phuong leaves down his woman and 2 school-aged children.