MONTREAL Two nurses working at the Joliette CLSC were suspended without pay on Monday following an alleged incident of racism against on Indigenous woman. The case was made public by Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Grand Chief Ghislain Picard, who wrote a post on Facebook denouncing the incident, which occurred on Friday at 1 p.m. According to Picard s post, an Atikamekw woman who was an outpatient of the CLSC was the “subject of intimidation, mockery and harassment,” as staff members “saw her name and told her I think we ll just call you Joyce. ” In September, an Atikamekw woman named Joyce Echaquan caught staff at Joliette Hospital berating her with racist insults while she lay dying on a bed. The incident sparked widespread comdemnation and led to promises of reform from the provincial government.
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Two Canadian nurses are suspended for mocking an indigenous woman by comparing her to a patient who died in agony a year earlier at the SAME hospital while staff mocked her for being stupid and only good for sex
Two nurses in Joliette, Quebec, have been suspended without pay for making derogatory comments about an unnamed patient
The patient was subjected to intimidation, mockery and harassment , according to an indigenous leader
The names of the nurses have not yet been made public
The unnamed woman was compared to Joyce Echaquan, 37, who a year earlier had filmed staff taunting her as stupid and only good for sex as she lay writhing in agony in the same hospital. She later died