By Katrine Desautels Five years after Joyce Echaquan died tragically in a Quebec hospital room, there is still work to be done to improve the treatment of Indigenous people in the province’s health system, politicians and advocates say. Echaquan, a 37-year-old mother of seven from Manawan, filmed herself on Facebook Live as a nurse and an orderly were heard making derogatory and racist comments toward her while she suffered at a hospital in Joliette, Que., northeast of Montreal, just before her death on Sept. 28, 2020. The video of her treatment went viral and drew outrage and condemnation across the country. The Quebec minister responsible for relations with First Nations and Inuit acknowledges there is more to do to restore confidence in the health system for Indigenous people, while also…
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