In the video shared by media outlets, nurses can be heard in French calling Echaquan "stupid as hell," and suggesting she was only good for sex. Photo: Pixabay
The Canadian province of Quebec said it had launched two investigations as outrage spread on Wednesday over a livestream made by a sick indigenous woman before her death that showed staff verbally abusing her in a hospital.
Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old mother of seven, checked into a hospital in Joliette, Quebec, on Saturday to get treatment for stomach pains. She died on Monday.
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