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The associate of a person who obtained a medically assisted demise after creating a extreme bedsore in a Quebec hospital says medical employees didn’t hearken to her.
Sylvie Brosseau spoke exterior the Montreal courtroom the place a coroner is holding hearings into the demise of her associate Normand Meunier.
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Brosseau says Meunier cherished the outside and had many goals and plans regardless of being quadriplegic.
All that modified after he was left on a stretcher on the St-Jérôme hospital for 96 hours and developed a extreme strain sore that by no means healed.
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Brosseau says she repeatedly requested for Meunier to be given a particular therapeutic mattress that forestalls sores, however she says she felt ignored by hospital employees.
Meunier requested medical help in dying two months after creating the sore and died March 29, 2024.
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