Scarborough woman walks home from hospital with COVID-19 diagnosis
A Scarborough, Ont., woman wants to see better transportation options available to hospital patients after she walked for more than an hour home in the days following her COVID-19 diagnosis.
“I said, ‘It’s absolutely ridiculous. I could get to Italy and back for less than that,’” Charlotte (not her real name) said of her experience at Centenary Hospital in Scarborough on April 24, when she said a nurse offered to connect her with transportation for the short ride home for $1,200 or contact one of her adult children to pick her up.
“I mean, I was aghast.”
“I just looked at him, like, ‘You got to be kidding.’ I said, ‘I’m COVID-19 positive and you want me to ask one of my kids — who have kids — to pick me up?’ I said, ‘There’s no way.’”
Global News agreed to conceal her true identity because of fears she said her COVID-19 diagnosis would cause among others living in her building.
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She said she received positive test results for the virus on April 19.
Charlotte was among 97 Canadians on the Coral Princess cruise ship, which saw an outbreak of the virus after departing Santiago, Chile, on March 5. Two passengers died on board.
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