Alberta couple shares story of daughter’s death as community pushes for 24-hour urgent care

daniel smith DESTROYED the Alberta Health services. All to save money...... HEARTLESS

Once again, a spotlight in shone on Danielle Smith's less than stellar leadership of the province of Alberta. My heart breaks for this family. I hope that Danielle feels the same.

Should of called an ambulance, Cochrane is not that far from Calgary, they would of been there in about the time it'd of taken you to get her to an urgent care.

Disgusting, they have been let down.

I am so very sorry❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Rest in peace sweet child❤

The husband look so familiar. A nurse that worked at Brampton Civic Hospital. My condolences to the family.

They need a hospital

Everest, even though I haven’t talked to you much, I will miss you 😢❤

I experienced something similar with my oldest daughter, who thankfully is still with us. However, it was in Japan, which is supposed to have some of the best healthcare in the world. We got a taxi to the nearest ER, which we found was closed. We then went back home and called an ambulance, which took us to the ER at the main hospital of the city. She was there for 5 days with pneumonia after experiencing febrile seizures due to her high fever. I thought it was highly unusual for an ER to be closed, as people's lives don't take a break overnight.

Sorry baby girl,this is unacceptable. Canmore can't bare the overflow. A senior friend couldnt get in in canmore hospital after avoiding cochrane Airdrie urgent care is 24/7. Cochrane is growing so does urgent care .. 💔 prayers to the family

Oh iam soso sorry 😭💔

It’s easy to forget how random life can be.

Danielle Smith needs to start putting money back into health care. Dumping everyone with needs onto emergency room floors and not providing enough staff is really getting out of hand. How many more people have to die due to lack of proper health care?

The only consolation is because she’s a young child.. she is in the arms of the Saviour.. with no pain! But how the family grieves!! 🙏❤️

every corner has a camera on the traffic light! the RCMP are not enforcing most crime its job security!
the jails are full so they let criminals get away with a lighter sentence its still make revenue for the court workers! its the same as steeling we are scammed to pay for criminals and rehab. no more funding jail make work camps! collect resources up in the cold north to pay your dept to society no more free rides! look at the crime rate in north Korea!

Nice country we live in

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Trudeau's legacy will be remembered as one of the biggest disaster in history of this country.

The current state of our health care system is the result of Justin Trudeau's woke policies where they stuff their own pockets with billions of dollars of tax dollars while they don't have funding to keep a hospital open at night.

Absolutely devastating…. Oh my gosh… absolutely heart breaking !!!!!!!!😮😩😩😩😩😩😩

Hearing about incidents like this involving children is always heartbreaking. Imagine if you have only one child. Hopefully, solutions such as establishing backup emergency critical care units will be put up to prevent this from happening to another child. RIP, angel.

Why wasn't an ambulance his first thought though???

Could I pls know why she couldn’t breathe? I’m so sorry 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

So sorry for your loss, you have our deepest condolences.

Omg Canada has gone to Hell

After all these years with our medical associations insisting on fewer medical students and fewer medical students.... Monopolies are always evil, all the time.

How devastating! What a beautiful baby girl . Rest in peace angel. My deepest condolences and sympathies go out to her family ❤

This is extremely sad I pray for all of you if you need anyone to talk to please reach out kind regards

Why didn’t he go to a proper hospital with a 24/7 ER?? Also what was the cause of death?!!

Health care centres should be open 24/7. My condolences goes out to this family, RIP little angel.

Crazy how this could happen in a developed country.

Why he didn’t call ambulance sooner or at first…. I don’t know what to say ….it just breaks my heart…

And why does urgent care close in the first place? An urgent situation can happen at any time

Our healthcare system is really sucks!
My family doctor requested my CT scan in April last year 2024 and i just received a message 3 days ago this year 2025 a confirmation that I have appointment for CT scan. Imagine, if the long wait not days or weeks but months, the time you find out you have this condition or life threatening disease, it will be too late for you, because it is not detected early.
Hospitals must prioritize kids like toddlers, babies and newborns. Doctors must do all the test. Im sorry to say, this but majority doctors and nurses in Canada are quackoz!

Losing a child is such a heartbreaking event. Our family experienced it ourselves when my sister passed at a young age. Only by Gods grace, we were able to go through it, and i still yearn for her from time to time.

she's in a peaceful place. May her soul rest.

Prayers for you sweet soul 🙏 I am so sorry that you suffer this way.

Omg what a tragic story as a father of two my self I could never imagine this

The Canadian healthcare system is broken they should have at least had the urgent health unit staffed minimally, like the father said he was not sure it would have made a difference but at least we could have said they tried everything

Soooo sad my condolences to this family

Your telling me a child is dead, because either some hospital wants to save money so they close urgent care or they closed because their are dumb, this is urgent care its in the name "Urgent", this is miserable it should be open 24/7 i am all for it. and my condolences to the family, may the little girl rest in peace.

Cuts to healthcare never help anyone.

We need to improve our health care system in Alberta. Don’t be the next Ontario.

My deepest condolences on such huge loss, she’s a beautiful light. My own husband passed away from a ruptured colon, he was a dnr & medic brought him back, fire couldn’t even look at me, they threw a 67 year old dementia on a gurney, and couldn’t get out of the building?? It was horrible, he suffered for 3days, me told to feed him, he died in my arms, after what I say was torture. Lots. Of huge red flags, fire clearly doesn’t like a specific medic, AHS doesn’t care, we must go higher. This is unacceptable RIP 🕊️🦩🕊️🌸

The problem is there just simply isn't enough trained medical personnel to fill the gaps. The ones that are here are stretched to the max. AHS isnt helping by stonewalling on any negotiations surrounding pay increases for frontline staff. You gotta incentivize people to work or this will keep happening.

Socialize Healthcare

Our deepest condolences to your family. Here in BC, one urgent care are not accepting patients as early as 9:20 am when they just opened at 9am on a Sunday, telling patients that they were fully booked….

It’s heartbreaking 💔 😢

Being a nurse why didn't he just take straight to the hospital?

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With the population of cochrane they should really have a hospital on is own. Although urgent care is used for “non life threatening emergencies”. Condolences to the family