IPAC Position Statement: Documenting Anti-Indigenous Racism and Discrimination in Healthcare Settings

The Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (IPAC) is taking a stand against the daily racism, bias, and discrimination Indigenous people face in Canadian healthcare.

Individually mediated racism, negative bias, and discrimination are daily experiences for Indigenous people in Canadian healthcare settings. The structural and pervasive nature of anti-Indigenous racism has deadly consequences for Indigenous patients.

Through action and inaction, physicians have played a key role in perpetuating racialized harm against Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Beyond the clear responsibility to avoid perpetuating such harm against Indigenous people, physicians have an ethical duty to respond when they become aware of anti-Indigenous racism or discrimination in the healthcare environment.

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Simulation Centre will Support Training of More Health-Care Professionals

The Manitoba government is investing in Red River College Interdisciplinary Health and Community Services Simulation Centre. 

BY THE NUMBERS: As part of Budget 2024, the province provided $6 million in capital funding for the simulation centre at RRC Polytech’s Notre Dame campus as well as $1 million in annual funding to support the operations and maintenance.

OF NOTE: When it’s complete, the new facility will act as a training location for a range of professions including nurses, health-care aides, paramedics, laboratory and diagnostic technologists, and workers in community services and disability training programs. It will feature equipment and technology that reflect real health-care settings and simulate situations encountered on the job. The space will be ready for launch in 2025.

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