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Patient leaves Labrador Health Centre to recover at home after false promise of hospital bed
['Heidi Atter', 'Frey Blake-Pijogge']
The Independent
Ann Marie Tobin was recovering from surgery at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s when she was told a bed awaited her in Labrador.
“When I got here, it was a stretcher against the wall,” Tobin says, recalling her admission to the Labrador Health Centre.
Photos submitted by Ann Marie Tobin show what she calls an “inhuman” situation, after she was left on a stretcher in a hallway of the Labrador Health Centre.
While in the Goose Bay hospital, she says she estimated a patient-to-nurse ratio of 10:1.
The Labrador Health Centre in Happy Valley-Goose Bay is Labrador’s primary medical facility.
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