When her grandfather was wheeled to his room in Montreal’s Ullivik centre on a luggage cart, Julia St-Aubin looked on in shock.
She had just returned from the hospital, accompanying her grandfather who travels to Montreal every three weeks for cancer treatment.
Jean-Guy St-Aubin, has lived Kangiqsualujjuaq, Que., a community located 1,500 kilometres north of Montreal, for over 40 years. He was staying at the health-care centre that’s intended to serve as a safe space for the hundreds of patients who fly south for treatment.
But back in March, when St-Aubin returned to the centre, there were no wheelchairs left.
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