The bill would urge “reasonable attempts” to contact the family or care providers of a person brought to hospital by police because they are believed to be a danger to themselves.
Photos of Todd Marr and Vancouver Police Const. Nicole Chan are pinned to the bulletin board in the Victoria office of Elenore Sturko, the B.C. Liberal mental health and addictions critic.
The bill would amend Section 28 of the Mental Health Act to require doctors and nurse practitioners to make “reasonable attempts” to contact the family or care providers of a person brought to hospital by police because they are believed to be a danger to themself or others. It’s also deeply personal for Sturko, one of the Langley RCMP officers who responded shortly after Marr jumped to his death from an overpass on Sept. 9, 2009. The day before, his mother, Lorraine Marr, took the 32-year-old stonemason to Langley Memorial Hospital hoping he could get a psychiatric assessment for his suicidal thoughts.
“They told him that they couldn’t do anything for him except they could put him in a padded room and the next morning they would give him a bus ticket and send him on his way,” she said, her voice cracking. “You feel like you’re at a dead end. And he definitely felt he was at a dead end. He just felt like there was no more help.”
Sturko was haunted by the cries of his mother and, for years, felt flashes of anger at the medical system for not holding Marr involuntarily. Sturko, a married mother of three, turned to alcohol before she sought counselling for her PTSD. Marr’s parents and Chan’s sister, Jenn Chan, will appear with Sturko Wednesday in Victoria at a news conference about the private member’s bill.
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