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MARCH 21, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 34
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Death of retired doctor in ER spurs calls for cardiac clinic DALE BASS
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Julie Gamble and son Kai share a laugh at the exact moment they discover they made a mistake while engaged in the create a car event at the BIG Little Science Centre on the weekend. The centre at 655 Holt St. regularly features activities that challenge the thought processes of kids and adults alike. The centre welcomes visitors Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is preparing for a March 29 lecture by Joanne Nicklas: An Intro to Honey bees and Beekeeping, which will focus on honey bees and the important role they play in food production. The 7 p.m. presentation is free. Go online to blsc.org for more information on spring break events.
Janice Joneja was holding husband Rajindar when he died. She had taken her husband, a retired neurologist and psychiatrist, to the emergency room at Royal Inland Hospital on March 12. He was in pain and great distress, but was capable of telling the triage nurse his medical history, including surviving cancer and congestive heart failure. His blood pressure was checked and he was given two aspirin — but no water with which to take them — and told to go to the waiting room. About five minutes later, Rajindar collapsed and, after seeking help, Janice held her husband as he died. “I called for help and went straight back to him and held him,” Janice said of those minutes on nine days ago. “I held him and told him, ‘I’m here, I’m here’ and I held him while he took that last breath, that last rattling breath.” He died in the building he had
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worked in since 1968, for many of those years as the only neurologist in the Interior and one of only two psychiatrists in the region. His death has prompted Janice and family friend Dr. G.B. Gow to speak out about the lack of a cardiac clinic at RIH. “I’m British and I’m a private person, but if my husband’s mode of death helps someone, as he helped people in his life, then I have to do this,” Janice said. “I don’t want anyone else to go through this horrendous thing again.” Janie called the conditions that led to her husband not receiving immediate care “avoidable,” adding Kamloops needs better-trained medical personnel. Gow agrees, pointing out no doctor saw Rajindar until after his death. Gow said had he been sitting in the triage area when an elderly man with a history of heart issues came in, needing to sit in a wheelchair and in obvious distress, he would have handled things differently. See IHA, A4
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