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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 602221" data-attributes="member: 12952">WINNIPEG -- A shipment of body bags sent out to northern Manitoba by Health Canada have left chiefs less than impressed. Expecting supplies for the H1N1 influenza outbreak, officials at nursing stations in Wasagamack, St. Theresa Point, and Garden Hill First Nations say they received an increased amount of body bags in their shipments. Officials at the Wasagamack station said they received about 30 body bags while still waiting for its shipment of hand sanitizer wipes and masks. Garden Hill Chief David Harper, who is also grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak -- which represents 30 communities in the north --wondered if Health Canada knew something about the H1N1 outbreak that First Nations communities didn&#039;t. &quot;Don&#039;t send us body bags, help us organize, send us medicine,&quot; he said in a statement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 602221, member: 12952"] [COLOR=green]WINNIPEG -- A shipment of body bags sent out to northern Manitoba by Health Canada have left chiefs less than impressed. Expecting supplies for the H1N1 influenza outbreak, officials at nursing stations in Wasagamack, St. Theresa Point, and Garden Hill First Nations say they received an increased amount of body bags in their shipments. Officials at the Wasagamack station said they received about 30 body bags while still waiting for its shipment of hand sanitizer wipes and masks. Garden Hill Chief David Harper, who is also grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak -- which represents 30 communities in the north --wondered if Health Canada knew something about the H1N1 outbreak that First Nations communities didn't. "Don't send us body bags, help us organize, send us medicine," he said in a statement. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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