Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar shared that her aunt died of “diabetic shock” in Somalia when she was 21 years old because she did not have access to medication, and said the fact that this sort of tragedy can happen in a country as wealthy as the United States is a “mark of shame.”

“There are people in the developing world who are dying because they don’t have access to health care or they don’t have access to medicine. My aunt was one of those people,” said Omar, whose family resettled in Minnesota as refugees after fleeing the civil war in their native Somalia.

Omar’s aunt died within days of her diagnosis.

“It is a mark of shame that in the wealthiest country in the world people are dying because they can’t afford lifesaving medicine,” the 5th District Democrat added in a statement.

Omar was among the House and Senate Democrats at a news conference Thursday to introduce a new suite of bills to curb drug costs.