Son recalls 'brutal' conditions mom endured at Saskatoon hospital

For Tim Lang, the smell in the hallway of Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital has lingered.

Lang visited his mother there last week after she was taken to hospital to get an MRI after suffering a stroke.

His mother spent three days in the hospital's hallway last week awaiting the MRI.

And Lang, who lives in Unity, about 170 kilometres west of Saskatoon, is now vowing to avoid Saskatoon if either he or a family member requires health care.

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He said he witnessed unsanitary conditions at RUH, including the stench from patients who had soiled themselves, and counted hundreds of people passing by his mother's hospital bed in the hallway.

"So