Overview
- Prashant Sreekumar reported severe chest pain on Dec. 22, was triaged at Grey Nuns Community Hospital and waited more than eight hours, according to his family.
- Relatives say an ECG showed “nothing significant,” he was offered Tylenol, and nurses periodically checked a blood pressure they believed was climbing.
- He collapsed shortly after being called into the treatment area and was pronounced dead of an apparent cardiac arrest, the family told media.
- Covenant Health confirmed the death, offered condolences, declined clinical specifics citing privacy, and said the case is before the Chief Medical Examiner.
- A widely shared video from his wife claiming a 210 blood-pressure reading has not been independently verified, as the episode renews focus on extended ER waits in Edmonton documented in recent reports.