Allison Holthoff, mother dies in hospital after waiting seven hours

On New Year’s Eve, a mother-of-three from Canada passed away in agony at a hospital in Nova Scotia after spending nearly seven hours in the ER. Her widowed husband is now demanding an explanation.

Earlier this week, Gunther Holthoff told reporters that his 37-year-old wife, Allison, woke up on December 31 with what she believed to be an upset stomach. According to a story by CTV News, he claimed Allison Holthoff fell off a horse in September and has been in pain ever since.

Her condition worsened during the day, and after a bath, the woman found herself writhing in agony on the floor.

Allison was unable to walk, so Holthoff drove her to the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Amherst. He arrived there just after 11 a.m. and carried Allison inside the building on his back.

The husband then took his wife into the emergency room in a wheelchair. He claimed she was having trouble sitting up due to the agonising agony she was feeling.

He admitted, “I did let the triage nurse and the person at the desk know that it was growing worse. She was in discomfort and wasn’t doing well.

It was challenging for hospital workers to collect Allison’s blood and urine samples because she was in so much pain by this point, according to her husband.

Allison was told to stay in the waiting area, but she eventually forced to curl up into a foetal position on the floor after her condition deteriorated.

Security officers provided a cup of water and some blankets to cover Allison while they waited for a doctor to see her.

Then, according to Holthoff, his wife started telling him that she believed she was going to pass away.

“She said, ‘I think I’m dying. Don’t let me die here’”, he said Monday.

The Holthoffs were eventually ushered into an examination room at 3 p.m., where additional blood samples were obtained from the patient.

Holthoff claimed he visited the nursing station five times, each time informing the nurses that his wife was getting worse. He claimed that a nurse questioned him about whether Allison was “usually like this.”

When Allison’s eyes began to roll back in her head, the nurse asked her husband if the married mother was using drugs. To which he replied, “No,”

Holthoff remarked Allison said, “I feel like I’m going to die.”

Nearly seven hours after the Holthoff family originally arrived at the hospital, at around six o’clock, Allison started wailing in agony and pleading for assistance.

Her pulse was raised and her blood pressure was low when a different nurse checked her vitals.

“Everything happened quickly after that, everyone started picking up the pace,” the husband said. “That was the first time I actually felt like someone was paying attention to us.”

That afternoon, Allison finally saw a doctor for the first time and received an IV hydration infusion and painkillers. She was then transported to an X-ray room and had an EKG performed.

After taking a little break, Holthoff claims he came back to find his wife yelling, “I can’t breathe.” I’m hurting. Do not disturb me.

A “code blue” was called to let medical personnel know that a patient was having a cardiac arrest as Allison’s eyelids rolled back into their sockets once more.

According to Holthoff, Allison was resuscitated three times, but a decision was made not to operate on her because the odds of her surviving a surgery were determined to be minimal given her condition.

“Unfortunately, I do feel like she was neglected and it was to a point where they couldn’t ignore us anymore,” the bereaved husband told reporters.

Following the tragedy, the woman’s family and a number of politicians from Nova Scotia have urged the provincial government to provide an explanation for why the patient’s medical care was postponed for hours.

The Nova Scotia Health Authority has started an inquiry to find out what happened in Allison’s case, the Department of Health and Wellness announced on Monday.