HEALTH AUTHORITIES have ruled out any public healih concern in the July | death of four-year-old Victoria McLean at Milis Memorial Hospital. “We have ruled out that the cause of death is meningitis or any other condition that is of a public health concern,” Northern Health Authority Chally Boland said last week. “Basically we don’t know the cause of death but the initial tests were done to rule these out.” Boland spoke after an autopsy “was done July 3. It has yet to be released. Underway are two investiga- tions, one by a coroner and the other an internal review by health Victoria McLean. tion suit started. child,” said he said last week. Pa From front couple’s five-year-old son Elijah. just hope he’s going to be okay.” vanced medical knowledge. happens,” passed away. is a loss for us.” Call 604.456.8100 Willlam Christiansen also wants a class ac- “We need to know what happened to the Although Christiansen says his focus is on McLean family wants answers She thinks the loss will be especially hard for the The siblings, says McLean, were inseparable and best friends. Vicki was very protective of her older brother who has had health problems since he was born. “They were together every day all day,” says, “She was more of a big sister than a little sister. I McLean’s maternal aunt, Marge Quock, says a death like Vicki’s shouldn’t happen in an age of such ad- “Everybody is supposed to be in the 2000s and this Says an exasperated Quock, who accompa- wied Marlene ‘McLean to the hospital the. night: Vicki | |. Quock says the death of a girl is especially upsetting for their First Nations family. “Because in our culture it’s females that do all the work,” explains Quock., “The boys are important too but it’s mostly the women because we're the ones who expand our tribe. It In the past few weeks you should have received a letter from {TAC and BCIT regarding your apprenticeship training. AZ - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Investigation launched into four-year-old’s death authorities. “In the case of a sudden and unexpected death, especially when there is a child involved, the coroner becomes involved,” said Boland. Marlene McLean, Vicki’s mo- ther, said she made repeated phone calls to the Mills Memorial Hopital emergency room in the carly morning hours of June 29. When she did not get through to a nurse or doctor on shift Mc- Lean said she called the RCMP to see if they had an alternate number for hospital. She says part of coroner Clar- ence Nyce’s investigation will in- clude contacting the Terrace de- tachment to ubtain transcripts of that phone call. Vicki McLean died after sev- zations,” Suit. aboriginal children, the investigation and class action suit is really on behalf of all children. “[’m contacting aboriginal and other organi- said Christiansen of his plans to dis- tribute the petition and start the class action “I won't be doing the suit, I’m not a lawyer, but I’m looking to have it initiated.” “I just don’t want this to disappear,” he eral visits to the emer- gency room at Mills Memorial Hospital. While Boland said he could not talk about the specifics of any medical case, he did say there was not a problem with staffing or bed availabil- | ity over the Canada Day ™ long weekend. “We provided care and advice and physi- cians were there,” he added. Boland also noted that a pedia- trician was on call over the week- end and saw the child. Boland said the internal review looks at every facet of what hap- pened. That would include an exami- nation of the hospital’s communi- said. Cholly Boland cations system, he said. That follows on Victor- ia’s mother being unable several times to connect to the emergency room using the hospital’s main ing off-hours, In the meantime, provin- cial health “services minister Colin Hansen says his officials are keeping a clase eye on the investigations. “This is really a tragic event and we want to know what hap- pened and why,” he said fast week. The important task is to make sure such an event doesn’t happen again, Hansen added, Advocate aims to start class-action suit A FORMER youth and family worker here has started a petition asking for an inde- pendent investigation into the death of Christiansen was a family and youth social services worker for the provincial government when he lived in Terrace. 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