Letter: A Heartbreaking Experience at Owen Sound Hospital

In a letter submitted to Brightshores Health System and shared to media, a reader recounts a cancer patient’s long ER wait in Owen Sound and urges leadership to address emergency care delays.

Owen Sound hospital, part of the Brightshores Health System. Photo: Owen Sound Current

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

On Tuesday, September 16, I took my nephew to the Owen Sound hospital emergency room. With me was my great-niece, his daughter.

My nephew is a cancer patient with esophageal cancer and had not been able to eat or drink for 36 hours without throwing u…