The report from the provincial First Nations Health Authority revealed that life expectancy at birth for status First Nations peoples dropped between 2017 and 2021, and it blamed the decrease on the combined impact of the toxic drug crisis and the COVID-19...
First Nations Health Authority Chief Medical Officer Dr. Cornelia Wieman, back left, and B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry stand during a First Nations welcoming before a news conference, in Vancouver, on Aug. 21.The life expectancy for status First Nations peoples in B.C. declined by six years between 2017 and 2021, a new report has found – a sharp drop compared with the statistic for Canadians in general, which shows only a dip of several months over the same period.
Dr. Nel Wieman, chief medical officer of First Nations Health Authority, called the decline in life expectancy “one of the most concerning trends.” She said deaths owing to the unregulated, toxic drug supply, which tend to occur at younger ages, are the leading cause of reduced life expectancy, followed by deaths linked to the pandemic.
However, a later surge of COVID-19 infections meant that First Nations people living in their communities were ultimately harder hit by the pandemic than Canadians in general. “This interim update shows us that we’re not fully meeting our obligations to First Nations people yet in those mainstream systems,” Dr. Smith said.
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