Mr. Chairman, the Minister knows from her trip to Tsiigehtchic that without a nurse in the community, there is no service. People are having to physically find their own way to Inuvik to deal with the medical attention. Those people are not even part of this survey. To tell me that, well, because you don’t have a nurse in the community means there are less medevacs or less people going to the hospital. If anything, there are more people going to the Inuvik Hospital on their own paying out of their own pocket to get the services they require. You have heard it yourself in the meeting in Tsiigehtchic. Even the former chief told you himself the incident he had where he fell off the roof and basically had to pay his own way down to Inuvik. He was hurt and whatnot, and yet he made his way to the hospital in Inuvik. He called Fort McPherson. Nobody came. He called to see if there was a shuttle. He had to pay his own way to Inuvik by taxi, which was $300. For you to say that, because you don’t have a nurse in the community, that means there are less medevacs. If anything, you’d think that without having services there, you won’t have that. With that, I would just like to ask the Minister, just on what you stated, are there actually analyses that state what you said to be true?
David Krutko on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 11th, 2009
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