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Friends of girl, 18, with leukemia sign her casket with loving messages in a final goodbye after she died waiting for a hospital bed during a shortage in Canada

February 10, 2020

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Laura Hillier, 18, died after waiting for a bone marrow transplant during a hospital bed shortage in Canada, despite having willing donors available
An Ontario hospital said it could only do five transplants a month and there were about 30 people who were waiting to have the procedure done
At her funeral, friends and family signed her casket with loving messages
The Hillier family is now fighting in Laura’s memory to end ‘deadly’ wait times for hospital beds in Canada