First Nations doctors speak out on Canada’s ‘troublesome’ pandemic response – APTN News
April 30, 2020
The federal government’s handling of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities has been troublesome, frustrating and challenging for Piikani Blackfoot Dr. Lana Potts.
“I’m very critical of it,” says Potts, family physician for the Siksika First Nation Health and Wellness Centre located one hour east of Calgary.
“I feel sometimes my hands are tied and all I can do is sit and watch. I describe it as almost if you’re waiting for a bomb to drop. Because you’re just wondering: What’s going to happen?”
Potts and several other Indigenous doctors have been meeting with Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett to discuss some of the challenges they, on the front-lines, are facing during the first wave of the global pandemic.
Read More: https://aptnnews.ca/2020/04/30/first-nations-doctors-canadas-troublesome-pandemic-response/
