B.C. Indigenous family files complaint for mistreatment at Vancouver Island hospital

By Melissa Renwick, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter HA-SHILTH-SA

One week after being diagnosed with bone cancer, Leo Manson Sr.’s nose started to bleed profusely while visiting his son in Ty-Histanis, a Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation community near Tofino on Vancouver Island.

His wife, Maxine, immediately brought him to the Tofino General Hospital before he was transferred to the Nanaimo General Hospital for further care.

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