‘I still haven’t grieved’: Families want apology for loved ones exposed to COVID-19 in hospital who died
Lloyd Hodgins was a jokester with a good heart.
Hodgins, 82, fractured his hip in October and received surgery at Boundary Trails Health Centre between Morden and Winkler, Man.
He tested negative for COVID-19 after being transferred to hospital in Portage la Prairie. Family expected he’d rehabilitate there and be back at his MacGregor care home cracking wise with friends and staff in no time.
Then he got COVID-19; he died Nov. 8. Hodgins and three other patients who had eaten together in the dining room of the locked Portage District General Hospital rehab unit tested positive, said his daughter Val Alderson.
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What could possibly go wrong?
This is how my Mum died. I did receive a follow up phone call from the palliative care Doctor at Toronto Western but nothing from the physio -rehab facility where she contracted the plague. When I picked up Mom’s belongings the rehab perversely included a bag of her soiled bed linens. I threw it into the lobby.
