Veteran engineer Walter Willis dies

Walter Willis

Veteran engineer and longtime technical advisor to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Walter Willis died yesterday at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital, which has since launched an investigation to verify if all clinical guidelines were followed in his treatment.

Willis, 66, was pronounced dead yesterday morning at the facility but it was later learned that he was alive and he was placed on life support.

In a brief statement, the hospital, where he had been admitted since Saturday “for