Man's death at Pukatawagan nursing station, 3 days after calling for help, sparks federal review
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A 48-year-old Cree man who called the nursing station in a northern Manitoba community with an urgent medical situation died after waiting three days to be seen, prompting a formal federal government patient safety review.
"If those nurses could've seen him right away, or if somebody could see him and send him out, that guy could've been still alive today," said Marcel Caribou, the brother-in-law of Murdock Colomb, who died in Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in April.
Colomb lived with Marcel's brother, Lawrence, and Lawrence's partner, Judy Caribou.
On Friday, April 8, Colomb was coughing, complaining of not feeling well and had swollen legs and feet, Judy said.
Currently, due to staffing shortages and the COVID-19 pandemic, community members on First Nations typically have to call nursing stations to be triaged, unless it's an emergency.
Judy said she called the nursing station late that Friday afternoon and handed Colomb the phone, telling him to say it was an emergency.
At the time she called, his feet were "all puffed up with water," she said. She asked him if he said during the call that it was an emergency.
"He said yes … [and] they told him, 'come Monday morning.'"
On Monday, Judy's daughter drove Colomb to the nursing station as soon as it opened.
Judy said they called later to say he would be medevaced to Winnipeg, more than 700 kilometres to the south.
But before that could happen, the nursing station called back.
"They said that his heart stopped twice. That's when we went to the nursing [station]. They were trying to revive him but he couldn't make it," Judy said.
The family is still waiting on the coroner's report for his cause of death, but believe the medical system failed him.
"That guy was dying. At least somebody could've went and checked," said Marcel Caribou.
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