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Police states don't do healthcare very well.
Prepare for the rush at your northern border, the collapse seems to be imminent here in Ontario.
After 19 hours waiting in two separate hospital emergency rooms in Kitchener, Ont., to get care for her teenaged daughter suffering from appendicitis, Julia Malott is angry.
"I think that any parent would understand that feeling of wanting to make something better for your child and not being able to," Malott told CBC News.
"This felt so backwards because the resources were right there but we couldn't get to them. We couldn't do what needed to be done."
The harrowing journey started around 10 p.m. on Sunday, after Angelina couldn't shake a stomach pain that had arisen during the day.
Mother and daughter went to the emergency department at St. Mary's General but Malott said it took 12 hours for them to receive a diagnosis confirming that the pain Angelina was feeling was due to appendicitis.
They were told there weren't surgery beds available at St. Mary's, so doctors sent Angelina to Grand River Hospital, where they waited for more than four hours before getting an emergency appendectomy — 19 hours from the time they first stepped into a hospital.
"It's crazy to me that a system that's meant to care for Ontarians can't even provide a mattress, can't even provide a room with dimmed lights so that people who are sick, people who are ill, trying to get better can just rest," Malott said.
Prepare for the rush at your northern border, the collapse seems to be imminent here in Ontario.
After 19 hours waiting in two separate hospital emergency rooms in Kitchener, Ont., to get care for her teenaged daughter suffering from appendicitis, Julia Malott is angry.
"I think that any parent would understand that feeling of wanting to make something better for your child and not being able to," Malott told CBC News.
"This felt so backwards because the resources were right there but we couldn't get to them. We couldn't do what needed to be done."
The harrowing journey started around 10 p.m. on Sunday, after Angelina couldn't shake a stomach pain that had arisen during the day.
Mother and daughter went to the emergency department at St. Mary's General but Malott said it took 12 hours for them to receive a diagnosis confirming that the pain Angelina was feeling was due to appendicitis.
They were told there weren't surgery beds available at St. Mary's, so doctors sent Angelina to Grand River Hospital, where they waited for more than four hours before getting an emergency appendectomy — 19 hours from the time they first stepped into a hospital.
"It's crazy to me that a system that's meant to care for Ontarians can't even provide a mattress, can't even provide a room with dimmed lights so that people who are sick, people who are ill, trying to get better can just rest," Malott said.
