Layne French, a father of two, said he feels “betrayed” after suffering a stroke on the side of the highway, which was classified by B.C.’s ambulance service with the same severity as a sprained ankle.
A father of two from Tsawwassen has lost faith in B.C.’s ambulance service after he says he was “left to die on the side of the road” after suffering a stroke.
The emergency happened March 13 while French was driving on Highway 99. French had just entered the Massey Tunnel and was driving at about 80 kilometres an hour when he was overcome by a coughing fit. French managed to get himself 100 metres down the road into a parking lot near the Steveston Highway, where he waited for paramedics.French received a call from B.C. Emergency Health Services BCEHS shortly before 6 p.m. and a secondary assessment was done on his condition. A dispatcher asked if French would accept a paramedic arriving in a minivan and he said yes.
Minutes later, the ambulance service received a second 911 call from a motorist the patient had flagged down. This was because a dispatcher had arranged for a “link and referral unit” — a paramedic driving a vehicle that’s not an ambulance — to respond. However, the statement didn’t say whether that link and referral unit was cancelled, only saying that French’s family members drove him to the hospital instead.
After a CT scan, French was told he suffered an arterial dissection — essentially a tear to an artery — which led to a stroke.
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