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Nunavut will see a new chief public health officer. On Monday, the Nunavut government announced Dr. Sean Wachtel is taking over as top doctor for the territory while Dr. Michael Patterson is set to start work at Iqaluit's hospital.
The daughter of an Igloolik woman who died in Iqaluit's hospital says nurses tagged and wrapped her mother's body in plastic in front of her — and then left her body in the morgue for nine days while the family waited to find out when her body would be sent home for burial.
Markosie Aulaqiaq was in Iqaluit receiving medical care for about three weeks before being sent home to Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, but minutes before the plane landed in his home community, Aulaqiaq died.
Nunavut's Department of Health is establishing a new $5,000 scholarship in memory of Savanna Pikuyak, a nursing student killed in Ottawa earlier this month.
Nunavut's health minister says a survey by the Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut gives the department valuable insights for how it can hire and keep nurses in the territory.