Meet some of the First Nations health care workers on the front lines during a pandemic – CBC

Our whole shift, we are in PPE — in gloves, masks, gown’

Jun 01, 2020

Throughout the month of June, CBC Indigenous is introducing you to some of the health care workers who are keeping our communities safe.

Here are three First Nations health care workers from across the country sharing some insight on what they do, why they do it and how COVID-19 is affecting them.

Isabelle Wallace

When she was 17, Isabelle Wallace left her home community of Madawaska Maliseet First Nation in New Brunswick to pursue her post-secondary education. She was the first person in her community to get a bachelor’s degree in nursing  and currently has a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Ottawa.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/first-nations-health-care-worker-1.5590863