Nova Scotia Man Wants Answers After Wife Dies Following Seven-Hour ER Wait


A Nova Scotia man whose 37-year-old wife died in hospital after waiting seven hours to see a doctor is looking for answers from the provincial health system. Allison Holthoff died New Year’s Eve after she was taken to the busy emergency room at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Amherst, N.S., about 140 kilometres north of Halifax. Holthoff was a mother of three school-aged children, and the deputy chief of a volunteer fire department.-- More...

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