By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com KENORA — The head of an Indigenous-led health care centre in Kenora says new data should help secure additional funding for its work. Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’iyewigamig, or WNHAC, is one of the local health care organizations involved in recent work by Toronto-based researcher Octavia Wong that used data from Our Health Counts to document the experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in several Ontario cities, including Kenora and Thunder Bay. The research looked at rates of diabetes, prescription opioid use and the prevalence of people experiencing discrimination when accessing health care. “We’re hoping to utilize some of the information that we get from studies like this to help increase the success rate of our proposal to the government to really help…
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