The Cree Nation in Quebec has signed an agreement with the province to fund construction of a state of the art, 52 bed hospital in Chisasibi, near the James Bay coast.
The $300 million agreement will also provide health services including surgery, something that is taken for granted in the south.
“The new facility will be the first regional health centre in Eeyou Itschee,” said Abel Bosum, grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees.
“Located in Chisasibi, it will serve all Cree communities, providing access to specialized services that it has been impossible to provide before.”
Construction of the hospital will also cover dialysis services, oncology, CT scans, mental health services, sleep labs and a gynecology clinic.
The latter is an answer to a decades long concern about women giving birth far from home.
The hospital is scheduled to be completed in 2025.
