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MONTREAL — A coroner's inquest into deaths in Quebec long-term care homes during the first wave of COVID-19 was dominated Tuesday by debate over whether medicating certain residents to alleviate their suffering amounted to euthanasia.
Recruiting and retaining staff at the privately run Herron nursing home was a challenge long before the crisis that unfolded during the pandemic's first wave, a coroner's inquest heard Tuesday.
MONTREAL - An expert witness at the coroner's inquiry into the death of Joyce Echaquan says Indigenous patients have long been afraid of seeking care due to systemic racism and poor treatment they encounter in the province's health network.
Dr. Stanley Vollant, an Innu surgeon, says even he ignored racist incidents reported to him in the past by Indigenous people, but says the images Joyce Echaquan filmed before her death “shook him to the core.”
MONTREAL — A nurse who works at the Quebec hospital where Joyce Echaquan died last year told a coroner's inquest Tuesday there is a perception among her colleagues that Indigenous people are alcoholics or drug addicts. The inquest is investigating the death of Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven who filmed herself at the hospital northeast of Montreal as female staff were heard insulting and mocking her shortly before she died Sept. 28. The nurse, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, initially told the inquiry she had never heard any negative comments by staff tow...