A Legacy of Mistrust: Can Indigenous Health Care in BC’s North Turn a Corner? – The Tyee

Patients share their stories as the province promises systemic change. A special report.

When the pain and desperation reached unbearable levels, Anne Ketlo dialed 911. The dispatcher asked her location and was startled to hear the answer. Ketlo was calling from her hospital bed.

Ketlo, who is from the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, was admitted to the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George for knee surgery in September. She describes waking up after the operation in agony. A nurse gave her two regular strength Tylenol and told her she could have two more in four hours.

For 17 hours, Ketlo says, she “cried and begged” for pain relief beyond the Tylenol, but nurses said they didn’t have authorization to provide it.

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