A coroner?s inquest which was unexpectedly adjourned late last week will resume May 6.
Coroner Dr. Shelagh McRae adjourned the inquest into the death of Robert Smilanich Thursday afternoon saying ?new information? had come forward pertinent to the inquest.
McRae didn?t divulge what the information was, but said a further investigation had to be conducted.
Smilanich had been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the larynx, which had spread to his lungs, and was suffering from several other serious illnesses, when he died just after midnight Jan. 27, 2001.
Smilanich was near death when the Laurentian site was undergoing an ?oxygen shutdown? as part of a hospital construction project.
The inquest heard a valve which brought oxygen to Smilanich and two other patients in a chronic care ward was accidentally turned off and Smilanich died within minutes of his oxygen being cut off.
