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After her 82-year-old father was left to die in a hospital supply room, a Quebec woman has gone to the media to ensure “that nobody has to experience anything like this again.”

Marcel Roy died Aug. 25 at l’Hôpital Sainte-Croix in Drummondville. As per photos taken by his family, he spent his last hours in a bed that was jammed awkwardly into a supply room.

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Mr. Roy had originally been placed in a normal hospital room, but was reportedly moved when it was clear he only had a few hours left to live. The family only discovered his unorthodox surroundings when they were summoned back to the hospital with the news that Mr. Roy’s heartbeat had become irregular.

“We arrive and he’s in a place where there are diapers, bandages, sterilized bottles … it was like a warehouse,” said Mr. Roy’s daughter, Marcelle Roy, in comments to Drummondville’s L’Express.

Although the hospital eventually bowed to Ms. Roy’s entreaties to find alternative accommodation and prepared a sixth floor room, she said, it was not ready until a few minutes after Mr. Roy had died.