How the Attawapiskat suicide crisis unfolded – Thestar.com

In the early hours of April 10, the hospital staff was in even greater need of reinforcements than usual after seven children had been brought in at once with possible drug overdoses from suspected suicide attempts.

Apr 18 2016

It was 1:45 a.m. when Melanie Phelps was awakened by a phone call. It was a supervisor at the Attawapiskat Hospital. The nurses were overwhelmed, the voice said, and Phelps had to come in.

As she made the quick walk from the nurses’ compound to the hospital, she remembers thinking, “Oh my god, here we go again.”

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