Family wants answers after Quebec woman posts video begging for help in hospital, dies 2 days later

The Quebec coroner is investigating the death of Mireille Ndjomouo, who posted a video on social media two days before she diedclaiming staff at a hospital on Montreal's South Shore had ignored her allergies.

Ndjomouo, a 44-year-old single mother of three from Cameroon, posted a video to social media last Sunday.

She repeatedly said staff at Charles-Le MoyneHospital in Longueuil had treated her with penicillin, even though she saidthey knew that she was allergic.

In the video,Ndjomouobeggedanyone watching to help her get transferred to another hospital.

"Help me, I don't want to die and leave my kids. I'm suffocating. I'm allergic to penicillin but then they injected me with penicillin, knowing full well that I'm allergic," she said.

Ndjomouo repeatedly said in the video that she washaving trouble breathing, hadpain all through her body and that her stomach was swollen.

She also said she was injected with penicillin over the course of three days.

Ndjomouosaid the injections stopped when a nurse noticed that her lips were swollen and saidthe reaction wasn't normal.

After seeing the video online, members of the Cameroonian community in Montreal went to the hospital with Ndjomouo's sister and arranged to have her transferred to the Jewish General Hospital.

Ndjomouo died there on Tuesday. The cause of her death is not yet known.

The regional health authority that oversees theCharles-Le MoyneHospital, theCISSS de la Montrgie-Centre, told CBC in an email that it can't comment on the case due to confidentiality, but did say that the quality department is looking into it.

The Jewish General Hospital would not give details aboutNdjomouo, citing patient confidentiality.

On Saturday, friends and family ofNdjomouoheld a demonstration outside ofCharles-Le MoyneHospital, demanding answers.

"She's gone, but many questions still remain about what happened to her," saidChristine Ndjomouo,Mireille's sister.

"I keep hearing her voice saying,'Come and save me.Come and save me, they're going to kill me. I'mall puffed up. Get me out of here.' That's what I hear every day since it happened," she said.

Christinesaid her sister lost faith in the personnel at the hospital and wanted to leave. She said it took five hours of negotiation before the hospital agreed to transfer her sister.

Friends have started an online fundraiser for the family, to help support Ndjomouo's children and repatriate her body to Cameroon.