The family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan lashed out at Texas hospital officials Thursday, calling for an investigation of his care and asking why he had not been given experimental drugs sooner.

“He is a poor black man,” his nephew Josephus Weeks told MSNBC. “I believe [the hospital] didn’t believe he deserved the care that everyone else should get.”

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said it gave Duncan the drug brincidofovir “as soon as it could be obtained,” according to the Daily Mail.

Duncan, 42, died Wednesday, less than three weeks after he arrived in the US from Liberia to marry his girlfriend, Louise Troh.