Tyson Koschik

Apr 8, 2024 | cbc.ca | Erin Brohman |Tyson Koschik

With a nursing shortage and no hospital, Island Lake First Nations communities face health-care struggle Maggie Harper stood on a hill overlooking Island Lake as a helicopter carrying her mother took off from the landing pad alongside the nursing station in Wasagamack First Nation. She watched on that October day as the chopper rose and veered south toward St. Theresa Point First Nation, 12 kilometres away. Harper’s mother, Mona Harper, would be transferred to a medevac for the flight to the...