Brian Sinclair (top right in wheelchair) is shown in a screengrab from surveillance footage of his time at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre in September, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
October 21, 2013 - 9:25 AM
WINNIPEG - A physician who first assessed the health of a Winnipeg man says she had no choice but to send him to a hospital emergency room where he eventually died during a 34-hour wait.
Dr. Marnie Waters told an inquest into Brian Sinclair's death that she examined the double-amputee back in September 2008.
She says he wheeled himself to the clinic from a homeless shelter when he hadn't urinated in 24 hours.
Waters says Sinclair needed his catheter changed, but a clinic nurse said she couldn't do it at the downtown practice.
Waters says she sent Sinclair to the Health Sciences Centre with a letter outlining his condition.
Sinclair went to the emergency room but died during a 34-hour wait for care without being examined by medical staff.
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