Demand answers WHY Brad Cavanagh was sent home from hospital???

  • by: T H
  • recipient: REGINA QU'APPELLE HEALTH REGION,WORKERS COMPENSATION BOARD, MINISTER OF SOCIAL SERVICES

FIRST OF ALL.....I would personally like to take time out of my day to give a big F YOU to the RQHR at the General Hospital.. I'VE HELD MY BREATH LONG ENOUGH IN HOPES SOMETHING WOULD BE DONE... TURNS OUT NOBODY WILL DO ANYTHING TO HELP A MAN IN NEED THAT'S DISABLED FROM A DISEASE.
My uncle Brad Cavanagh has been cut from all his disability to the point he can't afford to live. He doesn't get enough from disability to pay his rent non the less pay for food. The pain he is in is unimaginable everyday, he can't work to make anything more than what disability gives him. So now he's broke, in constant pain, the government, disability, workers comp. Absolutely NO ONE has stepped up to help him. Instead they have cut his benefits to the point he rather kill himself than life in pain in a room alone everyday.
This brings me to Sunday, he had told my dad along with his mom that he was planning to kill himself this weekend. It's not the first time he has tried, last time he ended up in the psych ward and they just let him leave. So Sunday the police finally serve a warrant and arrest him for potentially being a harm to himself. He gets brought into the psych ward at the General yet again and what do they do to help??? THEY RELEASED HIM HOURS LATER. The next day his mom goes over to see him. He's incredibly mal nourished, dehydrated and seemed to be disoriented. So she called the police again and had him brought back into the hospital Monday night now from the sounds of it he's in the cardiac unit, unable to talk, or function and they assume he OD'd on Hydromorph causing most likely a heart attack... I want to know... HOW CAN A HOSPITAL RELEASE SOMEONE KNOWING THE STATE THEY'RE IN AFTER BRING BROUGHT IN UNDER A WARRANT WITHOUT SOMEHOW SETTING UP SOME KIND OF CARE? OR REHABILITATION? MAYBE HELPING HIM WITH HIS PAIN MANAGEMENT?
NO!!! THEY PUNT YOU OUT THE DOOR AND LET YOU KILL YOURSELF. I WANT THIS TO BE SHARED, TO NEWS OUTLETS, ALL OVER FB, TO ANYONE ANY EVERYONE THAT KNOWS HIM... HE NEEDS HELP!!! HE NEEDS IT CRITICALLY, NO ONE IS WILLING TO HELP HIM. It breaks my heart that the health care system cares so little about mental health and suicide they will just let people take their lives. Alex Johnson you did a story on him previously... if there is anyway to shine a light on this and help him in any way I would be eternally great full. He deserves a chance at life, you would be treated better in jail than what he has right now. We aren't 100% sure of the outcome or damage he has done to himself or if he will even pull out of this but please share this post... and keep him in your prayers.

To fix this issue is to listen to the families of the patient , that he is going to commit self harm and keep him at the hospital, not let him leave 3 hours later. They should be held liable in this case for serious gross misdiagnosis. Furthermore the above stated agencies Minister of social services and the Workman's compensation board NEED to do a review on why this man can't live as all his money goes to rent and not food. WE NEED ANSWERS TO WHY THIS HAPPENED AND WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO TO HELP PEOPLE LIKE BRAD. To many on disability are starving because we can't afford to buy what is needed to survive. BRAD AND ALL WHO ARE ON DISABILITY WHO WANT TO WORK BUT CAN'T, NEED A LIVING WAGE INCREASE TO BE ABLE TO LIVE AND DEAL WITH THE PAIN WE LIVE IN EVERYDAY.

To the afore mentioned institutions: Why woud you let a man who says he is going to do self harm walk out of the hospital?? Why won't the disability agencies look at his case and all others to make sure people are living not just surviving??

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