Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My question today is to the Minister of Health and Social Services in relation to some suicide prevention and follow-up. I know that Stanton hospital is equipped with a psychiatric ward that deals with a lot of suicide cases in the NWT. I had an incident over the holidays, Mr. Speaker, about a person who tried to take their own life during the holidays and was quickly medevaced to the Stanton hospital, only to be returned to the community into the same volatile...that she just tried to get out of the very next morning; less than 24 hours flown back to the community and put into the same environment that they had just got out of. Can the Minister help me understand if this is the regular practice of the department, or are there any procedures in place that will require the person to stay either in the psychiatric ward or the hospital for at least a couple of days so they can look back and get some counselling and look at what the next steps can be? Can the Minister help me understand what the practice and the guidelines are for that today? Thank you.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 315-15(4): Suicide Prevention
In the Legislative Assembly on February 1st, 2006. See this statement in context.
Question 315-15(4): Suicide Prevention
Item 6: Oral Questions
January 31st, 2006
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