Health authority, nurses union at odds over patient death

SASKATOON -- A recent patient death at Royal University Hospital emergency department was not due to the care they were given, Health Minister Jim Reiter said. He made the comments in the Legislature on Thursday in response to a claim by Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory that the patient died due to overcapacity and understaffing. “I don’t go where Tracy got her information, as I said in the House I got my information from officials at (Saskatchewan Health Authorit