Premier is accused of using ER death for political gain

Son appalled by 'misinformation' spread by Higgs

- HINA ALAM

Ryan Mesheau's father Darrell died in the ER after waiting to be seen for nearly seven hours.

The son of a 78-year-old man who died in a Fredericton emergency department after waiting to be seen for nearly seven hours says New Brunswick’s premier is using his father’s death to score political goals ahead of an election.

Ryan Mesheau said he was taken aback by Premier Blaine Higgs’s recent vow to shield health-care workers from legal action in response to a lawsuit filed by the Mesheau family alleging their father died because he received inadequate care.

“I became quickly appalled because of the misinformation that Premier Higgs chose to spread in his statements, seeming to use the death of my father for what appeared to be a selfserving attempt to gain political points,”Mesheau said in anemailedstatement.

“Premier Higgs must understand that the best way to garner political gain from this situation is to earn it. And there is an opportunity now to do so.”