SIKSIKA, Alta. — A man from a First Nation in southern Alberta has filed a human rights complaint against the provincial health agency and a local hospital, alleging anti-Indigenous discrimination led to the death of his wife.
The complaint filed by Benedict Crow Chief of Siksika Nation says his wife, Myra Crow Chief, died in April 2022, because staff and doctors at the Strathmore District Health Services hospital failed to disclose to them that she had active abdominal bleeding.The complaint alleges doctors knew about her condition but she was not given medication to manage her pain and was ignored by nurses.
The Alberta Human Rights Commission complaint says Myra Crow Chief, 49, died at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary on April 21, 2022, days after being released from the Strathmore hospital. It also says that the couple was reluctant to go to their local hospital when the wife woke up early on April 17, 2022, with a coughing fit that led to sudden, intense pain in her abdomen.
"Many Siksika members are reluctant to visit the hospital notwithstanding its proximity to the reserve. Many members choose to travel the additional distance to Calgary, even in circumstances of acute medical need, rather than risk receiving discriminatory treatment at Strathmore." "For reasons that remain unclear, the doctor did not inform Myra that the scan had revealed evidence an active abdominal bleed," the human rights complaint alleges.
The complaint says that is where she died of hypovolemic shock, a condition where severe blood loss makes the heart unable to pump enough blood to the body. It alleges the likely secondary cause of death was a hematoma in her abdominal area.
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