Aboriginal children receive poorer health care, suffer delays – The Globe and Mail
Feb. 10 2015
A study suggests aboriginal children often get poorer health care than other kids while governments argue over who pays the bill.
Co-author Vandna Sinha, a professor at McGill University, says the problem persists despite the federal government’s position that there are no violations of the so-called Jordan’s principle.
“You get children and First Nations families caught in the middle,” she said.
Jordan’s principle holds that no aboriginal child should suffer denials, delays or disruptions of health services available to other children due to jurisdictional disputes. Jordan Anderson was a Cree boy from Norway House, Man., who died in hospital in 2005 after such disagreements kept him from spending his last years in home care.
