A family’s fight for answers after hospital death

DEC 11, 202519 MIN
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A family’s fight for answers after hospital death

DEC 11, 202519 MIN

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<p>Leonard Sylvester, a 38-year-old Penelakut man, died in hospital last month -- less than three weeks after a routine medical procedure. Throughout his hospitalization, his wife Boedaya Sylvester says she was not properly communicated with, and she says they were treated differently because they’re Indigenous. In this episode we hear from Boedaya and from Island Health, which has promised to review what happened.</p>