Health Canada guilty of ‘malpractice’ in treatment of Indigenous youth, Charlie Angus says – CBC

Government has no method for tracking requests or denials for counselling for First Nations kids

Nov 23, 2016

In the midst of a suicide crisis among Indigenous youth, the federal department responsible for their health care cannot say how many children have sought help and been denied.

NDP MP Charlie Angus calls that “systemic negligence.”

“We’re losing children every single day and I hear in case after case that funding for mental health services wasn’t available or that it was denied,” Angus said.

Angus pressed Health Minister Jane Philpott during a parliamentary committee on Nov. 16 to explain how Health Canada keeps track of the needs of First Nations children.

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