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One week after he collapsed in Mexico, Stuart Cline of London is fading fast, his family says — stranded in a foreign hospital because there are no available staffed beds in his hometown.

The 71-year-old survived an initial fall that burst blood vessels in his brain. Mexican doctors even stabilized him enough to withstand an airplane flight Saturday back to Canada.

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But four days later, Cline is still in Mexico and his family is growing desperate.

“(Being) here is a nightmare and we feel so alone we can’t believe nobody can do anything for us. My (father-in-law) is very weak. His heart is not doing well. He is fighting but I don’t know for how much longer. He (can’t) wait for a bed. We need to fly him back to Canada,” Alejandra Cline wrote in an email to London West MPP Peggy Sattler.

It’s scary. It really is unacceptable

The traumatic story will be one of the first tests faced by newly-minted Health Minister Helena Jaczek, only two days into the job, as Sattler expects to press her for help in the legislature on Wednesday.