Doctors and nurses in Canada Province of British Columbia are due to a macabre betting game in the headlines. In at least one hospital in the Region, the clinic staff should be appreciated for incoming indigenous patients, the alcohol value and bet have completed. The Ministry of health of the province of British Columbia in the West of the country said on Friday.
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“If this is true, then it is intolerable, unacceptable, and racist,” said Minister of health Adrian Dix. It is an investigation had been initiated. To what clinic it is, was not made known.
The allegations according to which the bets are to be raced in the emergency room of the hospital. The bet had been closed in patients in whom Doctors and Nurses in the arrival of the assumptions that these indigenous roots. ‘ve won, who had located with his estimate closest to the later, the possible blood-Alcohol level.
The Minister of health expects more cases
As the British BBC reportedshould have named the parties Involved in the game, allegedly after the popular game show “The Price Is Right”. In the original complaint had been called, therefore, a clinic in particular. The investigation will deal now, however, with racism allegations from employees throughout the health system. The Minister of health Dix reckon that more cases would come to light.
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The BBC, according to the complaint, was filed by Daniel Fontaine, President of Métis Nation British Columbia. Previously, a hospital employee mentioned the game in the opposite. Fontaine told the BBC he was not surprised. The government knew for years that there is racism in the health system.
For outrage, the current transactions resulted in, among other things, the representation of the interests of indigenous peoples. People with indigenous roots are “much too often victims of prejudice,” she said. There are always reports that hospitals refused to the treatment of seriously ill Indigenous, because they were supposedly “drunk”.
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