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Story summary
- Dave Kimpton, a Quebec coroner, urged authorities to improve care for spinal cord injury patients after Normand Meunier sought assistance in dying over bedsores.
- Meunier spent four days on a stretcher in an emergency room without equipment.
- Kimpton's report calls for immediate access to therapeutic mattresses and a multidisciplinary approach to prevent bedsores.
- Saint-Jérôme Hospital was criticized for lack of communication and record-keeping.
- Kimpton issued 31 recommendations to health organizations.
