Originally Posted by
billdokes
WOW!
He was apparently approved for Permanent Residency in Canada so is eligible for Health Care like any other PR or Canadian Citizen. If you have an issue with that take it up with your government, and if you feel strongly enough encourage them to age-cap new PR's...there is no 'moral judgement' on the daughter for playing by the rules to bring her father to Canada.
Originally Posted by
secretalcoholic
IMO time to close this thread
Adam Smith, unsure how someone's life expectancy, legal/immigration status has to do with whether or not AC should be diverting.
I am taking a polite tone when I type this out so don't take offense. Please understand that I don't have some political issue with PR or healthcare eligibility.
Take in: 83 year old man died during a flight their daughter planned, to bring him to Canada.
He had chest pains during the flight and she decided to administered him Sorbitrate (generic name Isosorbide dinitrate), which is a prescription medicine for chest pain, early onset heart attack.
Administering this medicine (correctly, or incorrectly, she's not a MD and we don't know the dosage) probably caused him to have hypotension (low blood pressure), which caused the vomiting, incontinence, etc.
Maybe AC/MedAire didn't know that she administered this drug at the time. And unfortunately he died.
And now the daughter and CBC are running a story against Air Canada.
My point is that this is the daughters fault.