Makibi Timilak review to wrap up later this month
Report won't include comments from Debbie Mckeown, the nurse on duty the night baby Makibi died
The lawyer conducting a review into the 2012 death of Cape Dorset baby Makibi Timilak says she'll wrap up her work by the end of this month, but the resulting report won't include any comments from Debbie McKeown, the nurse on duty the night baby Makibi died.
"Her council advised that she would not be speaking with me because they had litigation pending in the Nunavut Court of Justice with respect to disciplinary proceedings involving Miss McKeown and the registered nurses association," said Katherine Peterson, the retired lawyer conducting the review.
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Makibi died in Cape Dorset after his parents were told by a local nurse to wait to see her in the morning.
Peterson says she's heard testimony from a wide array of community members and health care workers, and heard some recurring complaints.
"A common theme was the difficulty of government processes in dealing with complaints or unhappiness about the delivery of health care."
Peterson says she also heard about a cultural disconnect between those providing health care and those receiving it, as well as complaints about health care workers being unable to resolve workplace differences.
The review will be finished by the end of the month, and delivered to Nunavut's health department.
It's not clear when, or if, the report will be made public.
When asked whether it would be, last November, former Health Minister Monica Ell said only, "I would certainly hope so."