A Winnipeg grandmother says she got a phone call from a provincial employee asking for her grandson’s medical equipment to be returned just days after 12-year-old Caleb McKague died.
“I was totally flustered, not believing what they were asking,” said Theresa Jobse.
Jobse said a representative of the Materials Distribution Agency, which distributes medical items on behalf of the province, phoned on Aug. 9. The call came just one day after the family notified the province of his death, and four days after McKague died.
She said the employee had a list of medical items in the family’s possession, and asked that they be returned.
“My
