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Seven weeks before Londoner Stuart Cline died in an Ontario hospital after being stranded in Mexico awaiting a hospital bed here, a Toronto-area man suffered a similar fate, his family says.

Bryan Sockett, 72, suffered with pneumonia for two weeks in the Dominican Republic while waiting for an Ontario hospital to commit to providing an intensive care bed, his health insurer so desperate it moved him to a Florida hospital where he died Jan. 19, his family told The Free Press and posted on Facebook.

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“I’m extremely saddened and outraged at the state of our health-care system today,” Sockett’s daughter, Kathy Paul, wrote on her Facebook page.

“We contacted the Canadian Embassy, the Ministry of Health and my ­brother-in-law literally travelled hospital to hospital to plead for a bed. They could not help us. We finally convinced the insurance company to move him to Fort Lauderdale. . . . Unfortunately, it was too late. The infections he had contracted had worsened and his system was shutting down. He passed away the following day.”