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> GTA | | May. 5, 2001. 01:13 AM | | | Dead patient's mother loses bid to participate in Sick Kids inquest | Harold Levy and Sonia Verma
STAFF REPORTERS | | Sharon Shore has lost her battle to participate in the inquest into the death of 17-year-old Sanchia Bulgin at the Hospital for Sick Children. Shore, whose 10-year-old daughter Lisa also died unexpectedly at the hospital on the same ward two years earlier, had asked Chief Coroner James Young for leave to examine witnesses and call evidence at the inquest set to begin May 23 so she could draw on her experience to help save other lives. But in a ruling released yesterday, Young found that involving family members from a previous inquest is risky, because ``the inquest could descend into a second inquest into the same death with the other parties not present or protected.'' Young said he had no doubt that the Shore and Bulgin deaths had ``a major impact'' on the hospital, noting testimony that ``an abnormally high number'' of nurses left Ward 5A/B since October, 1998, the month Lisa died. Shore, who argued she had been responsible for many of the recommendations proposed by the jury probing Lisa's death, said she was disappointed but planned to attend the Bulgin inquest and ``to try to make a difference.'' Stephanie Bulgin, Sanchia's mother, also expressed disappointment. ``It would have been good to have had Sharon there to make sure recommendations made before will finally be implemented,'' she said in an interview. The hospital could not be reached for comment. | |
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