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Twilight in Puvirnituq Town, Nunavik, Canada, March 8, 2006. Image by George/Flickr, Creative Commons License. Canada, 2006.
Glancing nervously towards the clock, Brenda Epoo, an experienced midwife and perinatal service coordinator, reaches for a folded set of fresh bed sheets. With only 5 minutes before the next patient arrives, Epoo must handwash all of her instruments and change the linens on the bed in a local home in Inukjuak.
When the pandemic hit, Epoo’s midwifery services in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, became even more indispensable as the looming threat of COVID-19 resulted in interregional travel restrictions, cancelations of medical services and understaffing at Nunavik’s hospital in Puvirnituq. In March 2020, in anticipation of COVID-19 reaching Nunavik, the maternities in Inukjuak, Salluit and Puvirnituq were moved out of the hospital to local homes or motels to free up hospital beds. Only the ‘maternity’ in Salluit has since returned t
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I was fortunate to get quick and effective treatment for my post-partum anxiety. But many Indigenous women, however, aren’t so lucky.
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My first panic attack happened while I was browsing shelving units at Ikea. I was shaking, my leg kept banging into my seven-month-old son’s stroller and my heart was beating like crazy. But as soon as I got into the parking lot, the feelings dissipated.
A second attack hit me a few days later at an empty grocery store: I felt like I was being squeezed tightly by the aisles around me, and this feeling followed me and my stroller all the way home and lingered for a few hours.