Overview
- Prashant Sreekumar, 44, reported severe chest pain on Dec. 22 and waited more than eight hours in the Grey Nuns Community Hospital emergency department, his family said.
- Relatives said he received an ECG and Tylenol and was told nothing significant was found before he collapsed upon entering the treatment area.
- The wife and father have publicly alleged negligence in a widely shared video, citing extreme pain and high blood pressure, claims that have not been independently verified.
- Covenant Health offered condolences, declined to comment on care citing privacy, and confirmed the case is before Alberta’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
- The death has intensified scrutiny of emergency wait times in Edmonton, where recent reporting shows some of the province’s longest ER visits during high-demand periods.