2023-06-13 20:18:32
Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the CMA’s first Indigenous president, made the announcement on Tuesday.
The history of the profession is also the history of Canada. This history is marked in particular by the devastating effects of hospitals for “Indians”, forced medical experiments on Aboriginal people and disparities linked to investments in infrastructures, but also by systemic racism, neglect and mistreatment.
said Dr. Lafontaine during a talk on Aboriginal health.
Cassidy Caron, President of the Métis National Council, and Natan Obed, President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, participated in the talk on the importance of formal apologies to Aboriginal peoples.
« To be meaningful, these apologies must unfold over time and build on cumulative moments toward the end goal of rediscovering each other and rebuilding trust between health care providers. health and patients, families and Aboriginal communities. »
In September 2022, the Canadian Medical Association created a strategic guidance circle of 16 leaders, experts and knowledge keepers from Indigenous communities across Canada to guide it in achieving its goals.
This approach ultimately aims to establish a transformed health care system that is free of racism and discrimination, that upholds the right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination, that values, respects and integrates Indigenous worldviews, medicine and healing practices, and that offers members First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples equitable access to health services that take into account their cultural realities and their traumas
concludes Dr. Lafontaine, who has Métis, Ojibway and Cree ancestry.
Among the 94 calls to action in 2015, resulting from the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, eight relate to reforms in the health system.
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