A Native family from Ontario, Canada, is upset after a hospital sent the body of their miscarried child through the mail.

The mother believed the hospital was going to take the baby to a funeral home. Instead, the hospital put the child in a package, which got sent to the wrong address.

When the package finally arrived on the North Caribou Lake First Nation, a remote community, it had been nearly 40 days after the miscarriage. Chief Zeb Kenequanash said the mother was "hysterical" when she received the package and opened it.

Ontario's Health Minister George Smitherman is promising an investigation.

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