NAN Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said this is a result of racism in the health-care system.
Quequish, 31, died of undiagnosed and untreated diabetic ketoacidosis on April 1, 2017, at her home in Kingfisher Lake First Nation after several visits to the local nursing station.
Kingfisher Lake First Nation only sees physicians 60 days out of the year. Like many remote First Nations communities across NAN territory, people there are forced to rely on poorly equipped nursing stations that lack basic medicine and supplies, staffed by nurses with limited training. “It is not normal to see young people dying in our communities. It is not normal to see these needless deaths, this unnecessary suffering. It's not normal,” he said.“It's not by accident. I say that because that's the way the systems of colonialism, the systems of oppression are designed. They're working exactly the way they're designed to, which is to take away the rights of the people of the North.
“You know that there is neglect. How many times did Ruthann go to the nursing station with the same condition with the same symptoms and was sent home? Fiddler said when he heard the recommendations and found out that they were unable to determine why and how Ruthann died, it was a disappointment.
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