Two Canadian law firms have filed a $1.1-billion class-action lawsuit on behalf of former patients of government-run “Indian hospitals,” which comprised a decades-long segregated health care system now marred by allegations of widespread mistreatment and abuse, CBC News has learned.
The lawsuit focuses on 29 segregated hospitals operated across the country by the federal government between 1945 and the early 1980s. Researchers say thousands of Indigenous patients may have been admitted to the institutions during that four-decade span.
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Lawrence says
I wrote a letter to Nishanbew aski Nation to one of the deputy chiefs back in 2010 regarding the medical mistreatment and abused I received in wpg. In 1974.. I was 7 year’s old , alone with no escort for 11 months . Stayed at boarding home. I have flash backs. The only things I remember are the bad stuff that happen to me.. if need be I can share my story what happen?
Robert D. Smith says
You are welcome to submit your story to us to monitortelegram@gmail.com