Documentary chronicles the COVID-19 response in Indigenous communities throughout northern B.C.
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry was in attendance at the Prince George Playhouse Tuesday night to celebrate the premiere of a documentary highlighting the resilience of First Nations communities during the pandemic.It weaves together stories from the early days of the pandemic and documents how Indigenous communities throughout northern B.C. responded to the crisis, detailing everything from logistics to personal impacts on people, communities and culture.
“We are in a place of forgetting a lot of those things that happened – the fear, the uncertainty, the unknowing, the anxiety and ‘how do we deal with this?’ and those moments of joy – I am so, so appreciative that they did this film, and it will remind us that we are strong and resilient and that we can get through this if we are together.”
From the beginning of the pandemic response, Julie Morrison, FNHA’s vice-president of regional operations, said that she knew this was a story that they needed to document and share. “As a public health doctor, we spent a lot of time in our training learning about pandemics and it is all academic, and it is all books, and all of a sudden I sat at my desk and went 'holy schmoly we are here this is it,'” said McDonald. “The people that FNHA serves are people with significant needs and significant challenges and we have such a small team.
“I was so struck by so many stories both individuals and communities and within the FNHA of resiliency and sovereignty of healthcare in the face of the pandemic.”
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