The MHA for Torngat Mountains is calling for an investigation into the operations in the Labrador-Grenfell Health zone due to a lack of access to timely health care in northern Labrador.
Lela Evans says in her five years sitting in the House of Assembly she’s seen issue after issue involving people unable to get timely health care, and being bumped off medevac flights for important appointments and emergency services—and nothing has improved.
The latest revelation involves the refrigerator unit at the morgue in Nain which has not been working properly for the last two years.
Evans calls that a “total disregard” for the people of northern Labrador who she says are being treated like “second-class citizens.”
“Too much has happened,” says Evans. She believes that now that Labrador-Grenfell Health is being operated by NL Health Services as a regional zone, that systemic racism is creeping into the decision-making process. “The Innu have told me that, a lot of the Inuit on the lower government level have told me that.”