(Noor Ibrahim/ Global News) — Chantal Phillips still remembers the pain she experienced back in 2000.
At three years old, her mother took her to a Toronto doctor’s office for a urinary tract infection. She says, at the time, trying to urinate was too painful.
Phillips and her mom were out the door the same day without a remedy for the UTI.
“He just dismissed her, and said, you know, it’s not a problem, she’s only three years old,” Phillips says.
A couple of days later, Phillips says her pain intensified to the point she couldn’t sleep. Her mother brought her to the ER in the middle of the night. (…)