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Eabametoong nursing station expanded, better services expected

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Rick Garrick — Wawatay News

Eabametoong now has dental services available at its newly expanded nursing station.
“The hygienist is coming in next week and the following (week) the dentist is coming back again,” said Bill Shawinimash, community health representative in Eabametoong. “For about two years now all our dental appointments had to go to Thunder Bay.”
Shawininmash said the community’s health staff now feels like a team at the nursing station, with Home and Community Care and Healthy Babies, Healthy Children program staff also located in the building.

Elder served with navy, army and reserves

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Mishkeegogamang’s Isabelle Mercier has served with the Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Canadian Reserves.
“I was first in Navy and went through new entry in (Canadian Forces Base - CFB) Cornwallis,” said the Thunder Bay Elder who received the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation in 2009 for her contributions to the care and well-being of veterans and to the remembrance of their contributions, sacrifices and achievements.
Mercier retired as a lieutenant in the Canadian Reserves after serving with the army after the unification of the Canadian Forces in 1968.

NAPS hires community policing coordinator

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Nishnawbe Aski Police Service has hired a community policing coordinator to provide more community policing services in the 35 Nishnawbe Aski Nation communities it serves across northern Ontario.
“I’ll be coordinating with all the different regions, all the different detachment supervisors within Nishnawbe Aski Police (NAPS), which will then turn over to our employees and front line officers for community policing endeavours and initiatives,” said Const. Chris Carson, the new NAPS community policing coordinator who works out of NAPS headquarters in Thunder Bay. 

Percocet, OxyContin prescriptions questioned

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Questions were raised about prescriptions for OxyContin and Percocets during the Aboriginal Health Care: Governance and Leadership conference, held Oct. 27-28 in Thunder Bay.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Mike Metatawabin said he was “scared” when his daughter told him she had been prescribed Percocets after undergoing a Caesarean section during the recent birth of her baby.

Hearing language improves healing

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Three new medical dictionaries in Ojibway-English, Oji-Cree-English and Cree-English have been developed to help patients at the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre.
“When they hear their language, they start to heal,” said Helen Cromarty, special advisor for First Nations Health at the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre. “Often the physician does not know the language. In order to communicate with the client, having those (medical dictionaries) is one way of assistance in communication.”

Food concerns raised at food symposium

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Concerns about food costs and availability across Nishnawbe Aski Nation were raised Oct. 25-27 during the NAN 2011 Food Symposium.
“Fort Albany, like other communities, faces a challenge in getting affordable food, quality food as well as being able to feed our families,” said Gigi Veeraraghavan during her Oct. 27 presentation at the Best Western Nor’Wester Resort Hotel in Thunder Bay. “Hunting has also become expensive because now we have to go out in our big minivans and boat and motor and go camping.”

Sewage thrown in ditch from lack of housing

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Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus is hoping a Youtube video depicting substandard housing conditions in Attawapiskat will spur governments into action especially with winter arriving along the James Bay coast.
“We found out the conditions are very, very extreme,” said Mushkegowuk Council Grand Chief Stan Louttit, who travelled to Attawapiskat Nov. 7 with Angus, Timmins-James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson and a doctor from the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority.

Wawatay elects new board

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Kingfisher Lake’s Micah Winter and Wunnumin Lake’s Vivian Waswa have been appointed as vice president and secretary of Wawatay Native Communications Society’s new board of directors.
“I’d like to make sure our language and culture is enhanced,” Winter said. “My hope is to see gospel jamborees on the Internet, so to have a better Internet system in place too.”
Winter feels that Wawatay is doing a good job with its live broadcasts.
“It produces about $250,000 (annually), so hopefully we can get that higher,” Winter said.

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