Enough is enough - time for change at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

The new evidence that Brian Sinclair was left to vomit in the Health Sciences Emergency Room with no attention is too much. Heads must roll at the WRHA.

Today’s revelations that Brian Sinclair was vomiting in the Emergency Room, but nothing was done, show a level of response that was so negligent that it simply cannot be tolerated. Brain Sinclair paid with his life for the failures of the NDP run health care system and someone must be held accountable for these atrocious shortcomings. It’s time for Drs Brian Postl and Brock Wright to submit their resignations.

We now know that:
Brain Sinclair died after waiting in the Emergency Room for 34 hours without being seen;,
We were told he had not approached the triage desk, and we now know he did, and;
He vomited as a result of his condition, and yet nothing was done.

The whole series of events is completely incomprehensible that it could have happened within our health care system. Yet we had an investigation by the WRHA that failed to reveal several of the most critical facts and concluded there was only a ‘system’ failure.

This was not the first investigation into a death in the Emergency Room. In 2003 when Dorothy Madden died of a heart attack in the waiting room of St. Boniface Hospital's emergency ward, after a six-hour wait a full report was done which was to make sure Emergency Rooms in Winnipeg were working perfectly.

Either the report or the follow through of that report were inadequate since there has been little progress and other deaths such as John Klassen and more reports, but yet conditions in Emergency Rooms in Winnipeg are still inadequate.

The investigation into the death of Brian Sinclair was completely botched by the WRHA and there was an attempt to blame the system and to blame Brian Sinclair for not approaching the triage desk. Enough is enough. For the sort of incompetence we have seen in the WRHA, heads will have to roll.