Canada orders judicial inquiry into death of Prashant Sreekumar
India, Jan. 17 -- The Government of the province of Alberta in Canada has announced a judicial inquiry into the death of 44-year-old Indo-Canadian Prashant Sreekumar, from a cardiac arrest last month after waiting for over seven hours for treatment in a hospital.
The untimely demise of Sreekumar, an accountant and father of three, occurred on December 22 in a doctor's office in the Grey Nun's Community Hospital in the provincial capital of Alberta.
In media interview, his wife Niharika Sreekumar said they waited for nearly seven-and-a-half hours before being called in by a doctor.
Sreekumar collapsed there and passed away within minutes. Videos from the family's traumatic experience went viral globally and cast Canada's healthcare infrastru...
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