An Ontario family is asking for an inquest and calling on the province to set limitations on emergency room wait times for children, after their son died following an eight-hour wait last year.
GJ and Hazel van der Werken, of Burlington, Ont., said their 16-year-old son, Finlay, was taken to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on Feb. 7, 2024, after suffering with a mild illness that got worse.
Finlay’s mother told the media that the emergency room was “filled with a lot of people.”
She said her son was “calling out in pain.” He was quickly triaged as a “level 2 patient,” which indicated he required urgent care, but was left waiting for eight hours and 22 minutes, Hazel van der Werken said….