Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Minister of Health and pertaining to interpreting staff at the Stanton Yellowknife Hospital. Mr. Speaker, diagnostic assessment by a physician is only a preliminary process in the medical field. Communication between a physician and a patient is a most essential part of the process. Mr. Speaker, partial understanding and partial treatment, the consequences are you require more visitation by the patient to a doctor, more costly to the government. My question, Mr. Speaker, is that from time to time people from my communities, Pelly Bay, Gjoa Haven and Spence Bay, complain that the Stanton Yellowknife Hospital does not have a person who speaks and understands Natilikmiot dialect. I wonder if the Minister would look into this matter seriously and get back to the communities? Thank you.
John Ningark on Question 64-12(3): Interpreters At Stanton Yellowknife Hospital
In the Legislative Assembly on November 23rd, 1992. See this statement in context.
Question 64-12(3): Interpreters At Stanton Yellowknife Hospital
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November 22nd, 1992
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John Ningark Natilikmiot
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