{"id":88056,"date":"2025-07-24T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88056\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:30:13","slug":"police-probe-suspicious-death-of-care-home-patient-transferred-to-abbotsford-hospital-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88056\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe \u2018suspicious\u2019 death of care home patient transferred to Abbotsford hospital – BC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police are investigating after someone who was transferred to Abbotsford Regional Hospital from a local residential care facility died under \u201csuspicious\u201d circumstances.<\/p>\n

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The hospital alerted Abbotsford, B.C., police on July 6 after two patients were transferred from Menno Home, both experiencing medical emergencies \u201cthat raised concern due to their suspicious nature,\u201d Sgt. Paul Walker said.<\/p>\n

One of the patients subsequently died on July 10, prompting the Abbotsford police Major Crime Unit to pick up the case. The second person remains in hospital.<\/p>\n

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Walker said the care home and other stakeholders are cooperating closely with the police investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn investigation like this is very complex; it is something the police don\u2019t deal with very often and have to rely in medical experts to ascertain medical histories, look at different things that are administered through care, while in care at hospital, and so on, so that is ongoing,\u201d Wlaker said.<\/p>\n

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Menno Home, police said, has implemented extra safeguards to ensure the well-being of residents.<\/p>\n

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