Salluit 4-year-old suffers months-long eye infection with no referral south – Nunatsiaq News

Oct 25, 2024

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A Salluit family fears four-year-old Isaiah Tayara Saviadjuk might have lasting complications from an eye infection after struggling for two months to get adequate medical care.

“The service here is very poor,” Maggie Tayara said about the care her grandson Isaiah received at the community’s health centre, a clinic run by the Inuulitisivk Health Centre. The Puvirnituq-based health centre provides health care for all the Hudson Bay communities in Nunavik.

“They just said they did not know what to do.”

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