Manitoba health official asked why he wasn’t told sooner of death in Winnipeg ER, internal e-mails show

Manitoba’s deputy minister of health questioned the provincial health authority on the timing and manner of which it informed his office of a patient’s death at a Winnipeg emergency department, documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show.Scott Sinclair, second to Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara, said in internal e-mails that he learned of the death of 49-year-old Chad Christopher Giffin hours after it occurred and had been reported in the media. Mr. Giffin, who was triaged as not urgent and waited eight hours for care, died on Jan. 7 at the Health Sciences Centre, Manitoba’s largest hospital.