As Cree Health Board and Social Services of James Bay continues to work intensively with partners to prevent, detect and control the spread of COVID-19 in Eeyou Istchee, frontline workers are adapting to new priorities while following the same precautionary distancing measures as everyone else.
In just over a month, the COVID-19 virus has gone from some far-off threat to an active health risk in the communities of Eeyou Istchee.
Eeyou Istchee’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced by the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay (CBHSSJB) in a public statement, March 26.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down countries around the world with startling speed, the Cree Nation Government is trying to reassure people that there are – at press time – no confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Eeyou Istchee.
The first step to effectively addressing sexual exploitation in Eeyou Istchee is acknowledging that the problem exists.
As healthy eating habits begin from a young age, Eeyou Istchee’s daycare chefs have an important mission that is often overlooked.
When Mary Ortepi went to Val-d’Or in her teens, women and Elders cautioned her to “never, never be picked up by the police.”
Moose Cree Health Services is opening its first land-based withdrawal management facility for post-treatment support this January. The program, dubbed Bim Bij Joo Wuk (meaning “going together”) Healing Facility, aims to ease participants back into the community by spending their time deep in nature.
Cree babies born on Cree land. Great news for a hunting society. Way to go – Cree Health Board (CBHSSJB) and the Nation for reporting it.
Once a year, nurses in Eeyou Istchee gather outside their home communities for a week of skills training. This year’s training included the unique opportunity to learn from the latest medical simulation technologies at McGill University’s Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning in Montreal.
