FREDERICTON New Brunswick’s department of health confirms that a report into emergency room services has been given to Health Minister Dorothy Shephard. The review was ordered after the death of 16-year-old Lexi Daken. Daken waited in the Everett Chalmers Hospital emergency room in Fredericton for over eight hours with her guidance counsellor to see a psychiatrist – and never saw one. She died by suicide six days later, on Feb. 24. Her family believes had she gotten the help she needed at the hospital E.R., she would still be alive. Two days after her death, the vice-president at Horizon Health Network called the situation “nothing short of a tragedy.”
Toddler was in serious condition, says paramedic in James Turpin manslaughter trial
In his report David Burtt, wrote two-year-old Kennedy Corrigan s body was dry when he arrived at her home in Central Blissville for an emergency call 17 years ago.
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James Turpin is on trial in Fredericton for manslaughter in the 2004 death of two-year-old Kennedy Corrigan
Posted: Mar 16, 2021 1:41 PM AT | Last Updated: March 16
Two-year-old Kennedy Corrigan suffered a massive brain injury on April 2, 2004, and died a week later at the IWK Hospital in Halifax.(Court exhibit)
In his report, paramedic David Burtt wrote two-year-old Kennedy Corrigan s body was dry when he arrived at her home in Central Blissville for an emergency call 17 years ago.
New Brunswick s child and youth advocate is promising a thorough review of mental health crisis care in the province and to issue a public report by July.
Mental health system should ve been fixed after report 12 years ago, advocate says
A retired judge who called for the transformation of New Brunswick’s mental health system 12 years ago, says nothing has been done to fix it.
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Mental health advocate Mike McKee made 80 recommendations to transform the system, but says it was never fixed
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Lexi Daken was a Grade 10 student at Leo Hayes High School in Fredericton. (Submitted by Chris Daken)
FREDERICTON Advocates, lawyers and those who work with youth say an overhaul of the youth mental health system is what s needed in the wake of Lexi Daken s death. Daken died by suicide on Feb. 24, less than a week after waiting for over eight hours in the emergency room at the Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton. She went to see a psychiatrist, but her family says she was made to feel like a burden, and never saw one. The tragedy has sparked outrage in New Brunswick and across the country. We ve known what needs to be done, for decades. And we haven t done it, John Sharpe said in an interview with CTV Atlantic.