‘My dad knew how to do everything:’ 3 Elders die in Unamen Shipu following COVID-19 outbreak – APTN News
Feb 16, 2022
The Innu community of Unamen Shipu, also known as La Romaine, was recently rocked with a COVID-19 outbreak, leading to the death of three Elders.
One of them, Ambroise “Apenuen” Lalo wasn’t able to get the medical attention he required in time, says the family.
According to Alexi Lalo, Apenuen’s son, the family worked hard to evacuate their father from the remote fly-in community, located over 1,300 km northeast of Montreal near the eastern edge of Quebec.
Apenuen waited four days before getting care.
“The first day, the temperature was still pretty good to do a medical evacuation by plane, but they had trouble finding equipment to evacuate the patients,” says Alexi Lalo in French.
