What health care in Canada is like today

Dina Friess – who is 85 years old, frail and has dementia – broke her hip when she fell Sunday in her Sunningdale home.(2 hour drive over narrow MT roads)

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If that weren’t enough, Friess and her family were told she would have to go by ambulance from Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital to Cranbrook for surgery because her injury wasn’t life- or limb-threatening. “Our concern is there are already risks to her having the surgery, risks to her not having the surgery – things like pneumonia, blood clots – so we don’t want to add extra stress by putting her in an ambulance for three hours over a mountain pass,” said her daughter Barb Leavitt. More...