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Manitoba's official opposition is calling for an inquest after a woman who left a Winnipeg ER without seeing a doctor subsequently died. The Progressive Conservatives say Bonnie Guagliardo went to Victoria General Hospital because she believed she needed medical attention. After six hours in the ER waiting room, she left the hospital without having been seen by a doctor. Guagliardo was found dead in her home the following morning, the victim of head trauma. Guagliardo had a bad fall in her home this past February and with the assistance of family members went to the ER. Health Critic Cameron Friesen accused the province of failing to learn from similar deaths that had already occurred. 'Bonnie Guagliardo needed treatment and the system failed her,' said Friesen. 'Hospital administration has suggested that Bonnie should never have left, but making her wait six hours without any treatment is the real issue. For that reason I am calling on the NDP government to call an inquest into her death.'
