Over the next two days Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) will host a meeting between federal, provincial and Indigenous leaders, as well as health professionals, to discuss ways of ending systemic racism in Canada’s healthcare system.

The meeting is a follow-up to the emergency meeting held in September after the death of Joyce Echaquan.

Echaquan was a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother who died in a hospital in Joliette, Que., after posting live videos to social media of racial comments from hospital staff.

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