A son is demanding an apology from the Ontario government after his father died in a St. Catharines hospital following a nearly week-long wait for a bed in a local intensive care unit.
As 71-year-old Stuart Cline languished in a Mexico hospital after a fall that caused bleeding in his brain, his son, David Cline, said the family didn’t get a single call from the Ministry of Health.
“I took that as an insult,” he told 980 CFPL’s Craig Needles Show Monday morning.
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Cline said Jaczek tried to “pass the buck,” by blaming insurance companies instead.
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“The insurance company made multiple phone calls in different cities, so it’s totally not true,” he said.
In a statement to 980 CFPL, Helena Jaczek sent her “deepest condolences to the Cline family,” but said that “travel insurers must work with our health care system, as patients abroad rely on their due diligence to engage our robust network of hospitals here at home.”
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