Sask. family frustrated with province after 5-day wait for return of father's body from Ontario
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Ken Millar loved taking trips and being on airplanes. Sadly, the last flight he took while he was still alive was on a Learjet to Toronto's Humber River Hospital.
Millar was one of five Saskatchewan COVID-19 ICU patients that died after being transferred to Ontario. His sons are sad that their dad wasn't vaccinated against COVID. They're also upset with how the province handled bringing their dad's body back.
Millar, 61, died on Nov. 4 after battling COVID-19 for almost a month.
He tested positive for COVID in early October and went into the ICU a week later. He had to be airlifted to Ontario because of Saskatchewan's ICU crunch. A total of 27 Saskatchewan COVID-19 patients were transferred out of the province.
Ken's sons Andrew and Matthew Millar say they encouraged him to get the shot, but that he was hesitant because of misinformation from some friends and social media.
The last time he could speak — before he was intubated — Millar apologized for not getting vaccinated.
His son Andrew, who uses they/them pronouns, fought back tears remembering the last conversation with their father.
"He was struggling even to breathe, but he wanted to tell me that he was so sorry and that he had no idea, and he repeated that over and over again and then he basically told me he loved me," Andrew said.
Ken's other son, Matthew, said his father always loved to be around people.
"He would say that his home here was just four walls to sleep in and he was always going out and seeing people, going for coffee," Matthew said.
Andrew said they learned a lot from their father about being a good person.
"My dad was a person that cared about everybody," Andrew said.
"He could barely know somebody but find out that they were hurting or they were in trouble and he'd want to go and just either be there for them or want to help them in any way."
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