Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My Member’s statement is about an incident that happened in Fort Good Hope and it will talk about a few things.
A young lady was struck by a skidoo, which at the time had four people on it. It was considered a hit and run incident and at the time when she was hit, she was transported to the local health centre where she was assessed.
It wasn’t until a few days later that she was finally medevaced from Fort Good Hope to Yellowknife for treatment. So the question is: Why two days waiting in Good Hope when she was hit by a skidoo?
When she finally arrived in Yellowknife for treatment, she was told the incident shattered her leg. The question is: Why did it take two days to be transported to Yellowknife? Due to the delay in the medical treatment, she was told now that her leg was infected and she now had to be medevaced to Edmonton. When she got to Edmonton her doctor told her that she was very lucky to be alive and asked why they didn’t medevac her from Fort Good Hope to Edmonton. Even from Good Hope to Yellowknife she did not have an escort, but from Yellowknife to Edmonton there was an escort available. She actually requested an escort from Fort Good Hope, but the health centre denied that request.
Today she’s unable to walk due to the incident. She’s on medication. She’s asking for help from the health centre and she has these questions that as an MLA here to represent her she wants to know what’s going on with the health centres, the local travel and what’s going on with the safety of young people driving snowmobiles all over the place. There are a lot of questions and she’s crying out for help. Actually, when she called my constituency office, she was crying on the phone as she was giving her story. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The Member for Weledeh, Mr. Bromley.
