A 48-year-old Cree man who called the nursing station in Mathias Colomb Cree Nation with an urgent medical situation died three days later, without getting the care that he needed.
The family is still waiting on a medical examiner's report for his cause of death, but believe the medical system failed him.Colomb, who was employed with Mathias Colomb Cree Nation's public works department, is now being remembered by family and friends as a friendly, kind, hard-working outdoorsman.Nursing shortage, said she can't comment on Murdock Colomb's case, but says the nursing station is under a lot of pressure.
Indigenous Services Canada spokesperson Maddy Warlow said a new policy to improve access to primary care on-reserve was issued in June, and the department is working with community leaders and front-line staff on its implementation. "The health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and communities is a high priority for our government, and our thoughts are with the family for their loss," she wrote.A young mother in Pukatawagan said she too had trouble accessing appropriate care at the nursing station.
"That's when I said, 'Good enough,' and then waited until child tax [payments] and got my kids ready and jumped the train" to The Pas, more than 200 kilometres to the south, she said, where she was immediately seen at St. Anthony's General Hospital.
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