A Toronto woman, Jaime Nguyen, says her family was forced to pay a private company to bring her uncle's body home after he was transferred to a hospital in Ottawa and later died there of COVID-19.
"When he passed away, my cousin -- his son, was trying to get into communication with the powers that be, so Health Canada, TeleHealth Ontario, whoever else would listen, just to figure out how to get his body back," Nguyen said.
She says the family was given the runaround by everyone they talked to.
In the end, the family had to pay $1,062 out of pocket for private transportation to get his body back to Toronto for a funeral.
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