Northern Manitoba’s medical system failed a two-month-old girl who died of an infection four years ago, an inquest judge has ruled.
Judge Don Slough presided over an inquest into the November 2011 death of Drianna Ross of God’s Lake Narrows.
In a report released Tuesday, he found that information was not passed on from the God’s Lake Narrows nursing station to a hospital in Thompson, ineffective drugs were given and “the seriousness of her condition was not recognized in a timely way,” according to the Canadian Press.
“There is no doubt that the provision of health care in the north is challenging.
“The co-operation between [health] agencies, in collaboration with First Nations communities, must expand in its scope, with the goal of ensuring that residents of some of Manitoba’s most disadvantaged communities have access to the quality health care that is the right of all Canadians.”
