Kashechewan Evacuation: Kids With Rash Will Be Removed From Community

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Kashechewan Evacuation: Kids With Rash Will Be Removed From Community
Topic Started: Mar 22 2016, 03:20 PM (249 Views)
Darcie	Mar 22 2016, 03:20 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: OTTAWA — Children covered in sores and rashes in an Ontario First Nation are the face of a much broader health crisis faced by aboriginal communities across the country, says Charlie Angus, the NDP indigenous affairs critic. Angus joined ministerial officials and aboriginal leaders for a conference call Monday to discuss why some children in Kashechewan First Nation have developed unusual rashes and, in extreme causes, painful sores on their bodies. The call came after images of the children were shared widely on social media over the weekend. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03/21/kashechewan-evacuation_n_9518274.html?ncid=fcbklnkcahpmg00000001 I figure if these were white kids in a community the whole infectious disease system would be there doing what needs to be done. It makes you cry to see this.

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angora	Mar 24 2016, 02:10 AM Post #16
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Agate makes a good point. Why is it only affecting children? I guess that's one tthing the drs will be working out.



blizzard	Mar 24 2016, 04:59 PM Post #17
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	Most likely less developed immune systems. In addition, any child having had recent surgeries would most likely be afflicted if there is an unknown infectious disease in the area.



Durgan	Mar 25 2016, 01:03 AM Post #18
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	If those horrible sores are not a medical emergency, I don't know what is. Send in a large clean-up team.



agate	Mar 25 2016, 02:51 AM Post #19
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	So this is the word for today Quote: The diagnoses in the children, aged one to the mid-teens, are scabies, mild impetigo and eczema, said Keith Conn, associate deputy minister of Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health branch.[/quote http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/scabies-impetigo-kashechewan-children-eczema-1.3504322 The chief wants an independent water testing done.



margrace	Mar 25 2016, 03:46 AM Post #20
Gold Star Member Posts: 5,367 Group: Member Member #723 Joined: April 1, 2010	Oh those people don't need clean water if they did the previous gov't would have done something about it like all the other help they got.



Dana	Mar 25 2016, 04:56 AM Post #21
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	Only one of the things they left behind for others to remedy.



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