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Death of Brian Sinclair
Brian Sinclair (1963 – September 21, 2008) was an Indigenous Canadian man whose death in a hospital waiting room led to widespread concern on the state of the healthcare system in Canada. On September 21, 2008, Sinclair waited 34 hours for medical attention at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre. Sinclair died while he was waiting and had developed rigor mortis when medical staff attended to him.
On September 19, 2008, after not urinating for 24 hours because of a blocked catheter, Sinclair visited a community health clinic that referred him to the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre.
At 3:00 p.m., Sinclair arrived via taxi to the emergency room at the Health Sciences Centre with a note from the clinic that explained his condition. Sinclair spoke with a triage aide, who instructed him to wait in the waiting room. The aide wrote something on paper before Sinclair wheeled himself into the waiting room. The piece of paper has never been found.
During the evening of September 19, 2008, the triage list was discarded.
At 1:00 a.m. on September 20, 2008, other patients said they spoke to Sinclair, who had been waiting for 10 hours. One patient allegedly spoke to medical staff to urge them to attend to Sinclair; medical staff responded that they were attending to other patients. While he was waiting, Sinclair had also vomited several times.
Between the late evening of September 20 and the early morning of September 21, Sinclair died in the waiting room.
Before 1:00 a.m. on September 21, 2008, a nurse was requested to check on Sinclair. The nurse did not believe that the request was urgent and instead completed paperwork. Shortly afterward, a nurse from another facility approached a security guard and stated she thought that Sinclair was dead, as his neck was "pasty" and his catheter bag was empty. The security guard attended to Sinclair, pinched his neck, and received no response from him. The security guard then contacted medical staff and informed them that he believed that Sinclair had died. The staff first thought that it was a joke and then moved Sinclair into a resuscitation room, where he was immediately declared deceased.
An autopsy later found that Sinclair had a treatable bladder infection brought on by a blocked catheter and had been deceased for two to seven hours before he had been noticed by medical staff.
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Death of Brian Sinclair
Brian Sinclair (1963 – September 21, 2008) was an Indigenous Canadian man whose death in a hospital waiting room led to widespread concern on the state of the healthcare system in Canada. On September 21, 2008, Sinclair waited 34 hours for medical attention at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre. Sinclair died while he was waiting and had developed rigor mortis when medical staff attended to him.
On September 19, 2008, after not urinating for 24 hours because of a blocked catheter, Sinclair visited a community health clinic that referred him to the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre.
At 3:00 p.m., Sinclair arrived via taxi to the emergency room at the Health Sciences Centre with a note from the clinic that explained his condition. Sinclair spoke with a triage aide, who instructed him to wait in the waiting room. The aide wrote something on paper before Sinclair wheeled himself into the waiting room. The piece of paper has never been found.
During the evening of September 19, 2008, the triage list was discarded.
At 1:00 a.m. on September 20, 2008, other patients said they spoke to Sinclair, who had been waiting for 10 hours. One patient allegedly spoke to medical staff to urge them to attend to Sinclair; medical staff responded that they were attending to other patients. While he was waiting, Sinclair had also vomited several times.
Between the late evening of September 20 and the early morning of September 21, Sinclair died in the waiting room.
Before 1:00 a.m. on September 21, 2008, a nurse was requested to check on Sinclair. The nurse did not believe that the request was urgent and instead completed paperwork. Shortly afterward, a nurse from another facility approached a security guard and stated she thought that Sinclair was dead, as his neck was "pasty" and his catheter bag was empty. The security guard attended to Sinclair, pinched his neck, and received no response from him. The security guard then contacted medical staff and informed them that he believed that Sinclair had died. The staff first thought that it was a joke and then moved Sinclair into a resuscitation room, where he was immediately declared deceased.
An autopsy later found that Sinclair had a treatable bladder infection brought on by a blocked catheter and had been deceased for two to seven hours before he had been noticed by medical staff.