The death of a middle-aged man who spent about eight hours waiting for care at a Winnipeg emergency department has some patient advocates raising questions as to what the hospital is doing to prevent incidents like it.

An investigation is underway at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre, after a middle-aged man died in the ER while waiting eight hours for care.

The province says it is launching a critical incident investigation into the death of a middle-aged man who was waiting for care at a Winnipeg hospital emergency room on Tuesday morning.

The Manitoba government says a review is being launched into the death of a man who waited eight hours in a Winnipeg emergency department, but it's not clear how much of the review will be made public.

Health officials are investigating a death at a Winnipeg hospital. Officials at the Health Sciences Centre say a middle-aged male patient died after waiting eight hours in the hospital's emergency department where he was initially triaged as a lower-acuity case.