BURNABY, B.C. - The caregiver of a woman who starved to death says the homecare organization she worked for provided little support for things such as prescribed pain medication or nutritional support before Florence Girard died in 2018.

BURNABY, B.C. - The woman who was supposed to be caring for Florence Girard before she died of starvation in 2018 says Girard would go into a "meltdown" every time she was supposed to go to the doctor or receive medical care.Astrid Dahl told a coroner's inquest into the death of the 54-year-old woman that she reported Girard's behaviour to managers at the Kinsight Community Society but no one provided any solutions.Girard, who had Down syndrome, weighed less than 50 pounds when she died while under Dahl's care, and the caretaker was convicted in 2022 for failing to provide the necessities of life.The coroner's inquest is looking into the death of Girard, who died while being cared for under a program overseen by Kinsight for people with developmental disabilities.Dahl told the inquest she would approach things differently now given Girard's death, but at the time she felt the meltdowns were causing the woman so much stress that it was better to keep her at home rather than take her to medical care.Girard's sister…