A day after a 44-year-old Indian-origin man died after waiting for hours in a hospital's emergency room in Canada, his wife accused the Edmonton hospital of “killing her husband” by not providing timely medical help.In a viral video, Prashant Sreekumar's wife said that the Grey Nuns Community Hospital neglected her husband's condition even after he complained of severe chest pain.“He was brought to Grey Nuns Community Hospital around 12.15 pm. He was sitting in the triage from 12.20 pm onward till about, I would say, 8.50 pm in the night,” his wife said.
“He was sitting in the triage complaining of constant chest pain. His BP constantly kept on rising, with the last recorded blood pressure of 210.
He… he was taken inside. He was only prescribed Tylenol during the entire waiting time that he was outside, and he was not given help. They said that chest pain is not considered an acute problem. They do not suspect a cardiac arrest,” she added.Further, she said that her husband collapsed, while nurses at the hospital were heard saying that they couldn’t feel his pulse.“When we came inside, he was asked to sit down. He got up for a fraction of seconds and he collapsed.
He fainted. And the nurse was heard saying that I do not feel a pulse. So basically the hospital administration, the employees of Grey Nuns Hospital, have killed my husband, Prashant Sreekumar, by not providing him timely medical help,” she said.Also read: 'Your mother will die today’: Hyderabad man sets wife ablaze in front of children“And the security was so rude that instead of addressing the cause, they said, ‘Ma’am, you are being very rude.’ So basically it is okay for them to kill a human being and to tell the wife that you are being rude,” she added.According to Canadian news channel Global News, Prashant began experiencing intense chest pain while at work. A client drove him to Grey Nuns Hospital in southeast Edmonton, where he was registered at triage and asked to wait in the emergency room.His father, Kumar Sreekumar, arrived at the hospital shortly afterwards. “My son told me, ‘Papa, I cannot bear the pain,’” Kumar recalled, as reported by Global News.According to the family, Prashant described his pain as “15 out of 10” and informed hospital staff about the severity of his condition.An electrocardiogram (ECG) was conducted to assess his heart, but the family said he was told that nothing serious was detected and that he would need to continue waiting. He was also offered Tylenol to manage the pain.As the hours passed, Kumar said nurses periodically checked his son’s blood pressure, which kept rising. “It went up, up, and up. To me, it was through the roof,” he said.Prashant is survived by his wife and three children, aged 3, 10 and 14. Family members said he was deeply devoted to his children and known for his cheerful, playful nature. The family often travelled together and shared a close bond.