Garnet Harper, 35, recently died in May 2023 after hospitals in that country refused to give him a kidney transplant because he did not have a COVID vaccine.

Harper had been diagnosed with stage five kidney disease in 2022 and even though two of his brothers offered to donate kidneys, the government-run Canadian hospitals refused to perform the surgery because of Harper’s unvaccinated status.

But according to his wife, Meghan, as he lay dying in his hospital bed, she was contacted by officials with the Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) asking if she would donate her soon-to-be dead, husband’s organs for transplants, Life Site News reports.

As a general rule, hospital officials contact TGLN about potential candidates for organ donation. The organization then contacts family members about donating their loved one’s organs. Nurses at the hospital had told Meghan to expect a call from TGLN.

When the call finally arrived, Meghan explained to the TGLN representative that her husband was dying because the hospital refused to perform a transplant operation because of his vaccine status.

“They call you while you’re sitting next to your dying loved one and they ask you if they can have his organs,” Meghan said. “Meanwhile, he wasn’t good enough to receive organs from them… I can’t describe the feeling. It makes me sick to my stomach.” 

READ: Ontario woman asked to donate husband’s organs after he was denied transplant for being unvaccinated