Manitoba family told to cover cost for bringing home body of woman who died after hospital transfer

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A Manitoba woman is angry with the province after she was told she’d be left to cover the cost to transfer the body of her late mother — who died after she was moved from her home community to free up a hospital bed for someone else. 

Patricia Fosty was left scrambling on New Year’s Day when her 84-year-old mother, Irma Rougeau, died at Morris General Hospital, about 50 kilometres south of Winnipeg — and Fosty was told it was up to her to bring her mother home to Winnipeg.

“I don’t think the government should only pay if you get out alive,” she said in disbelief.

“You transferred

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