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.
On November 7, the Assembly of First Nations, the University of Ottawa and the Université de Montréal released the first draft of the decade-long study regarding First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment (FNFNES).
All eyes were on Chisasibi October 7 as Cree leaders and provincial ministers made two major announcements of great significance for the future of health care in Eeyou Istchee.
A seven-hour trip, three times a week to receive treatments in Chibougamau is the reality for dialysis patients living in Waswanipi, but a new home hemodialysis pilot project, launching in October, is looking to change all that.
