Indigenous physicians share their experiences dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic – APTN News
May 8, 2020
Scary, frustrating and challenging are some of the words Indigenous physicians use to describe working in communities as a pandemic grips the world.
Walking between two worlds – one of tradition, the other of western medicine, and knowing health care gaps exist for Indigenous people compared to others, are not easy waters to traverse.
InFocus brought together a panel of doctors doing just that, to share their unique perspective on the situation.
Dr. Veronica McKinney is a family doctor and director of northern health services in northern Saskatchewan where a COVID-19 outbreak has hit LaLoche, six hours north west of Saskatoon. The community has fewer than 3,000 people and the region is predominantly Dene, Cree and Metis.
