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COVID-19 - Northern Saskatchewan Radio RoundTable
Video Upload Date: March 25, 2020
Josephine Greyeyes is an Emergency Response Coordinator with the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.She joined Rim Ziyed - a Medial Health Officer with the Northern Population Health Unit in La Ronge, and Simon Bird, the Director of Education for Lac La Ronge Indian Band on live radio March 20, 2020 to discuss COVID-19.
Northern Saskatchewan is roughly 85% Indigenous, namely Woodland Cree and Dene, and Metis. Many of those most vulnerable to Coronavirus in northern Saskatchewan do not speak English as their first language, and do not frequently use computer-based services. MBC NewsRadio in La Ronge sought to disseminate critical COVID-19 info, in Cree and Dene, for Northern Saskatchewan ESL Elders/speakers.
The questions covered included: 'what's going on in your respective offices?', 'Mental Health: is the province going to be helping northern communities with the additional stress?', 'reduced response capacity for surges in positive cases', 'Food, supplies, and medicines', and more.
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