Jamaican Man Returns Home in Casket After Going to Work on Canadian Farm

A Jamaican man, 39-year-old Sheldon McKenzie has died as a result of grave injuries he sustained while working on a farm in Canada.

Now a relative of the deceased is making her opinions known about the migrant worker program in which he was enrolled.

McKenzie died months after receiving a severe head injury.

Marcia Barrett, a cousin of the man who died has said of the program:

“It’s worse than slavery — they dispose of them,” while speaking with the CBC.

For more than a decade McKenzie reportedly travelled to and fro Canada, spending months at a time in the northern country as he engaged in manual labour on farms.

He reportedly sent the money he earned back to Jamaica to his wife and daughters aged 14 and 17.

However, in 2014 he sustained a serious head injury while working on a tomato farm close to the Canadian town of Leamington in Ontario.

The injury left him comatse.

Terrible condition

So awful was his condition that doctors were forced to remove a portion of his brain due to swelling and internal bleeding.

His cousin reportedly stated: “His face was completely bandaged, he was swollen. We got there, he was on life-support.”

McKenzie’s cousin also says immediately following his catastrophic injury, there was pressure to have him return to Jamaica.

She hired lawyers to in a bid to get him a humanitarian visa which would allow him to continue receiving medical care in Canada. She was successfulin procuring him a temporary stay, but he died before a decision was made on a humanitarian visa.

According to a report by CBCNews, hundreds of seasonal workers have been sent home from Canada in similar circumstances- the practice is known as medical repatriation.

Via CBCNews

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