Conflicting testimony from medical staff muddies the waters at Joyce Echaquan coroner’s inquiry – CBC
Former colleagues reporting contradictory facts on timeline preceding Echaquan’s death
Testimony being gathered during the coroner’s inquiry into the death of Joyce Echaquan has become increasingly contradictory, as staff members who were working that day give their accounts of events.
Two weeks into the proceedings, the lawyer representing Joyce Echaquan’s family, Patrick Martin-Ménard, said “it’s difficult to see clearly, to untangle the truth and lies in this.”
The coroner’s inquiry is looking into the death of Echaquan on Sept. 28 at the Joliette hospital. Hours before she died, the 37-year-old Atikamekw woman posted a video on Facebook of hospital staff verbally abusing her with racist epithets.
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