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Canadas police state focuses on covert control of the economy and peoples lives, "free healthcare" has always been poorly run. it's now MUCH worse since Canadian talent has decided to leave in droves and not return.
A 76-year-old man with a shattered leg bone has been languishing on a stretcher in the hallway of a small-town hospital since Sunday, waiting for surgery in London, Ont.
Ron Prickett of Sault Ste Marie was in a cycling accident in Sauble Beach. He fell after swerving on a gravel road to avoid a motorcycle and his tire slipped on loose stones.
Prickett was taken by ambulance to Wiarton Hospital, part of Grey Bruce Health Services. He's been in excruciating pain in a tiny makeshift room in one of the facility's hallways, with nothing to distract him and no ability to turn the lights on or off.
"I have a fluorescent light over my head that is operated externally down the hall," he told CBC News on Wednesday. "It's got plastic sheeting on the walls. It's not a proper bed. There's no TV or anything, just bare bones."
"It blows my mind that in Ontario, we have these facilities and I can't get a broken bone fixed. I have to lie around with a broken bone in my body for four days," he said. "It's so frustrating. I have no control.
"My family is doing as much as they can for me, but there's nothing for them to do. It's all happening in some board room down in London."
A 76-year-old man with a shattered leg bone has been languishing on a stretcher in the hallway of a small-town hospital since Sunday, waiting for surgery in London, Ont.
Ron Prickett of Sault Ste Marie was in a cycling accident in Sauble Beach. He fell after swerving on a gravel road to avoid a motorcycle and his tire slipped on loose stones.
Prickett was taken by ambulance to Wiarton Hospital, part of Grey Bruce Health Services. He's been in excruciating pain in a tiny makeshift room in one of the facility's hallways, with nothing to distract him and no ability to turn the lights on or off.
"I have a fluorescent light over my head that is operated externally down the hall," he told CBC News on Wednesday. "It's got plastic sheeting on the walls. It's not a proper bed. There's no TV or anything, just bare bones."
Bed shortage leaves patient stranded in Wiarton
Prickett was supposed to be transferred to London Health Sciences Centre, the largest hospital in southwestern Ontario. It has the facilities and surgical expertise he needs to repair his leg — except, he said, a bed shortage in London has prevented him from leaving Wiarton."It blows my mind that in Ontario, we have these facilities and I can't get a broken bone fixed. I have to lie around with a broken bone in my body for four days," he said. "It's so frustrating. I have no control.
"My family is doing as much as they can for me, but there's nothing for them to do. It's all happening in some board room down in London."
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