COVID-19 visitation restrictions for patients in palliative care need to be more clearly defined to front-line staff after a case of miscommunication kept their loved one from seeing her children.Tina Baker of Moncton said she had been pleading with staff at the Moncton Hospital to allow her sister, Colleen Cail, to visit with her youngest daughters more frequently while she is in palliative care at the hospital.“She is at the end of her life and we are fighting to try to get those children in to see her,” said Baker.
A tale of two provinces: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia’s pandemic fortunes have diverged in 2021 The 49-year-old mother of four has terminal breast cancer and is fading fast, Baker said.Cail’s oldest daughter and son have.