The Saskatchewan NDP is shedding a light on the Saskatchewan Healthcare system once again after a 94-year-old woman with dementia was stuck in a hallway when seeking care.

Berdeane Bodley is the senior in question. Bodley spent three days and three nights in the hallway at the Royal University Hospital after breaking her collarbone, according to her son, Neal Ferniuk.

Bodley uses a walker to get around, but her injury means she needs physiotherapy before she can safely use it again. Without a hospital bed, she could not access the physiotherapy she needs to regain her mobility.

Neal Ferniuk, Bodley’s son, says this isn’t the first situation where his mom was stuck in the hallway when seeking medical care.

“Unfortunately my mom, almost a year ago in September, had a fall where she fractured her hip. It was the same story, she was in the hallway for a couple of days before she got a bed.”

The RUH has been the sight of other situations brought up by the NDP, such as the photos of Edward Guenther, another senior with dementia, lying in a makeshift bed on the floor of the emergency room because there were no available beds. As well as RUH being the hospital that cancelled Kirsten Hanke’s needed surgery on her broken ankle. Kirsten later died of complications from a blood clot.