'It's 2021': Nunavut mothers say it's high time the territory gets more birthing services
CBC
In February of this year, Charlotte Karetak had to travel more than 1,200 kilometres away from her home in Arviat, Nunavut, to give birth to her first child in an unfamiliar setting.
She's one of many women in the territory who have few options when it comes to giving birth, and who often have to travel out of their communities to do so.
Currently, Iqaluit is the only community in Nunavut where women can access birthing services after staffing shortages forced Rankin Inlet to suspend its birthing services in August 2020
At the time, the territory's Health Department said expectant mothers would be assessed and sent to either Iqaluit or Winnipeg to deliver.
Catherine Connelly and Rachel Kaludjak were the first Inuit in Canada to become nationally certified midwives and worked at the Rankin Inlet birthing centre. Connelly left in January 2020 and Kaludjak left in August 2020 because of what they said was overwork and mistreatment.
For several years, the two were the sole full-time providers of labour support in Rankin Inlet, though midwives from the South rotated through. Many women throughout the Kivalliq region relied on the support, too.
"We just could not go on anymore," Kaludjak said, with emotion in her voice. "We were absolutely exhausted."
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