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Coroner calls for better medevac services after Salluit woman dies on flight – Nunatsiaq News

Sep 4, 2024

Recommendations part of report into death of Kitty Kumakaluk, who died in 2022 after 6-hour wait for hospital transport

A Quebec coroner is calling for better medevac services in Nunavik after a woman died following a six-hour wait for a flight out of Salluit.

Coroner Julie-Kim Godin’s recommendations are found in a report, released Aug. 14, into the death of 61-year-old Kitty Kumakaluk on Aug. 11, 2022.

Kumakaluk was admitted to Salluit’s health centre on the morning of Aug. 11 because she was coughing and vomiting blood. Medical officials hypothesized she either had pneumonia, cancer or tubercolusis.

At around noon, a doctor requested she be transferred to Puvirnituq’s Inuulitsivik health centre. Kumakaluk received oxygen and medication to prevent blood loss during the wait.

Read More: https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/coroner-calls-for-better-medevac-services-after-salluit-woman-dies-on-flight/

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