SLMHC Update
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win in the News
Prime Minister Paul Martin, first ministers and aboriginal leaders meet at the Government Conference Centre in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 13, 2004 to discuss health care. (CP PHOTO/Fred Chartrand)Prime Minister Paul Martin kicked off the First Ministers Conference on Health in September with a reference to us: "Across Canada we have ... good examples of promising program models to draw on.
In Sioux Lookout in Ontario the federal and provincial governments, [Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre] and the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation are working on the integration of the federal and provincial hospitals into one separate entity with clear provision to effect a first nations role in their governance. They are also working together on a newly holistic primary health care system to better meet the needs of the people, all of the people in the area."