Provincial health authorities revealed late Wednesday, a 13th resident from McKenzie Towne Continuing Care Centre has died after testing positive for COVID-19.
This comes as more grieving families want to be heard. Rita Owen was just a month away from her 92nd birthday. She lived a long life, but that doesn’t mean her family was prepared for it to come to end the way it did on April 3, after contracting COVID-19 amid an outbreak at her Calgary care home.
Her son, Michael, spoke to Global News from his home on Gabriola Island, BC. “I was given a call by nursing staff to say they felt my mother was at ‘end of life’ and didn’t expect her to last the night,” Owen said.