Burnaby Now November 2 2018

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FIRST RESPONDERS: The sixth annual Adrian Oliver Memorial Run was held Sunday at Deer Lake Park, with many first responders running 10 kilometres in the rain in full gear. The run is organized in support of Honour House, a home away from home for first responders, military personnel and their families, and is named in honour of an RCMP constable killed in the line of duty in 2012. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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A 74-year-old Burnaby man is recovering after what his family called “Third World” treatment at Burnaby Hospital last week. Barry Douglas, a retired glass installer, was admitted to the emergency department with intense abdominal pain at about 8 a.m. on Friday. “He was in acute pain,” his son-in-law Tony Morris told the NOW. “He couldn’t move; he couldn’t do anything, and he’s a

real tough guy, so he knew something was up.” Things started off well, according to Morris “The first 20 minutes in that hospital was the most amazing experience in an emergency I’ve ever had,” he said. “They were brilliant. They had all tests that they could have done within 20 minutes.” But everything went downhill from there. A doctor told the family he suspected a ruptured appendix but a CT scan was needed to confirm. At 10 p.m., however, the fam-

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ily was told the CT scanner was down and likely wouldn’t be working until noon. Eleven hours later, the scanner still wasn’t working, and hospital officials finally loaded Douglas and two other patients, all still in hospital gowns, into a taxi and sent them to Royal Columbian Hospital with a nurse, according to Morris. “I was shocked and stunned. I still am,” Morris said. His father-in-law was embarrassed, cold and in a lot of pain, he said.

After a CT scan at RCH at 11 p.m., however, Douglas was shipped back to Burnaby. The CT scan results confirmed that his appendix had ruptured and he was in need of emergency surgery. At 3 a.m., 19 hours after being admitted, Douglas went into the operation. “He was really badly infected.The surgery should have been done hours before,” Morris said. Because of the delay, Douglas had to spend extra days in hospital, according to the family.

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“He’s been on antibiotics for the last two days,” Morris said. Douglas’s family is “extremely disappointed” in the hospital, according to his son-in-law. “I get that things break down, but your process has to be 100 per cent better,” Morris said. Burnaby Hospital has one CT scanner that’s been operating since 2008, according to Fraser Health spokesperson Dixon Tam. He said the machine went down on Oct. 26 because of a software issue. Continued on page 5

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