Myron Cybriwski’s Legacy
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"No family should ever have to grieve knowing that their loved one died alone waiting for help that never came.. He was not well enough to call anyone else for help or to get to the hospital himself. He was told help was on the way, and it came too late..."
Myron Cybriwski died alone, in his bed in LaSalle, on May 14th 2022 while waiting for paramedics who arrived almost 11 hours after his first call to 9-1-1. He was 65 years old and had just retired.
Condolences to his family from Urgences-santé, the organization with the monopoly for providing ambulance services in Montreal and Laval, didn’t arrive until yesterday, March 22nd 2023.
A lot of changes have happened in the way emergency prehospital care is delivered since Myron Cybriwski died. Coroner Dr. Louis Normandin made recommendations last November and Urgences-santé implemented several processes designed to prevent the same type of tragedy from re-occurring.
Sadly, no one thought it was important to share that news with Cybriwski’s grieving daughter who single-handedly has been battling multiple layers of bureaucracy with varying degrees of success to ensure no other family has to experience the trauma of what happened to her father last May...