After 15 years, Iqaluit elder quits Ottawa medical care to die at home

Friday, March 1, 2019 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

Oqittuq Etuq returned home to Iqaluit this week to die surrounded by friends and family after he’d spent 15 years alone in Ottawa receiving dialysis treatment. The medical care is not available in Nunavut.

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