Haida elder in ‘extreme’ appendicitis pain was allegedly released from B.C. hospital without treatment – Atinito News
September 27 2023
Penny Kerrigan was flown to Terrace, B.C., because of severe stomach pain. She was allegedly discharged with just regular Tylenol for the discomfort and without a diagnosis of her appendicitis, something she ascribes to anti-Indigenous bias.
Penny Kerrigan says anti-Indigenous racism was behind her hasty discharge from hospital in Terrace.
By the time Penny Kerrigan arrived at Mills Memorial Hospital in northern British Columbia, she says the morphine she’d been given before her medevac flight from Haida Gwaii had worn off.
“I was in extreme pain,” said the Haida elder, who served as B.C.’s community liaison officer for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
She’d been flown to the hospital in Terrace, B.C., from her home community of Old Masset on Oct. 19, 2020, after a doctor told her she needed a CT scan to determine the cause of her severe stomach pain.
