SAINT JOHN, N.B. — The daughter of an 88\u002Dyear\u002Dold woman who spent part of Thursday in a supply room at an overcrowded New Brunswick hospital says she’s alarmed…
Karen Totten photographed her mother Irene MacNeill of Barnesville, N.B., lying in a supply room at the Saint John Regional Hospital, with a bed sheet hung up to give her some privacy and wearing dark glasses to help her rest in an area where lights couldn’t be dimmed. The image shows the woman surrounded by boxes and medical supplies.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
She says she found her mother lying in the supply area on Thursday after MacNeill was moved out of her room because it was needed by a patient who required access to oxygen supplies. “I had my mask on. I was crying. And one nurse brought me the number for the patient advocate, and another nurse asked if I was OK, and I replied, ‘No, I’m not OK,”‘ she said.
Totten said her mother, who has macular degeneration in her eyes, has been in hospital for close to 90 days awaiting a nursing home spot since she fell in the family home and injured herself.
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