BC Coroner

Director of the surgical program for Providence Health Care responds to BC coroner`s reccomendation

More than a year after a patient having routine surgery at a Vancouver hospital died, his death has been ruled accidental, but preventable.

Coroner Claire Thompson determined something went wrong when 42-year-old Wayne McIlroy was recovering after his nose operation at Mount St. Joseph’s in March 2013.

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