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On a night she should have been mourning, a nurse from Quebec’s Laurentians region says she was forced to clean up her husband after he died at a hospital in Montreal.

Isabelle Granito is now fighting to make sure other families can mourn with dignity and respect.

Jacques Richard was 52 years old when he died suddenly of a heart attack last year.

“My son contacted me. He said, ‘Dad is dead.’ He said, ‘Come fast. There’s nobody to help us,” she said.

Richard was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital, where Granito found him, an hour after his death. She said her partner was lying on a stretcher in the resuscitation room.

“His body was all covered with biological fluids, and a tube was still there, and nothing had been cleaned,” she said.

Granito has worked as a nurse for 26 years and said she was shocked to see …

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