Chair of the LHIN's Local Aboriginal Health Committee, Gloria Daybutch speaks at the launch of the Aboriginal Health Care Reconciliation Action Plan Launch
Chair of the LHIN’s Local Aboriginal Health Committee, Gloria Daybutch speaks at the launch of the Aboriginal Health Care Reconciliation Action Plan Launch

 

By: Nick Liard

The North East Local Health Integration Network have launched Ontario’s first Aboriginal Health Care Reconciliation Action Plan.

The three year plan was developed by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people which will help communities understand the current health care status and the need for appropriate health care services.

Chair of the LHIN’s Local Aboriginal Health Committee, Gloria Daybutch says it covers items like fly in communities that don’t have clean water and a lack of social services.

North East LHIN CEO Louise Paquette says there will be strict deadlines and guidelines to make sure the plan isn’t stuck on a shelf.

The LHIN has assigned an Aboriginal officer who will work with communities.

It was developed around the directions of the cultural medicine wheel.

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