Indigenous man’s braids cut off, thrown away in Edmonton hospital – Caledonia Courier
December 11, 2024
Alberta Health: ‘deeply regrettable and should never have happened’
Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after an Indigenous man’s braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital.
Eve Adams went in May to visit her husband, Dexter Adams, at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital and found the 84-year-old’s braids, his eagle feather and some medicine in a garbage can.
He had been deemed at a high risk of falling and was in hospital waiting for a space to open in a long-term care facility. He died just over a month later.
