Tyson McKay, of the northern Manitoba indigenous community of Cross Lake, poses with his nieces and nephews in the fall of 2014. McKay died from a heart attack in 2015, shortly after visiting the remote reserve's federal government clinic. Kelvin McKay via REUTERS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Ina Matawapit was barely conscious - intoxicated and suffering from a blow to the head - when police drove her to the North Caribou Lake clinic in Ontario, Canada, one summer evening in 2012.
The nurse at the federal government-run clinic, the only source of emergency care in this remote indigenous community, told the officers the 37-year-old could sober up in jail, according to testimony at a 2018 inquest. Minutes after leaving the clinic, the police sped back. Matawapit had no pulse and could not be revived.
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