Legacy
Health
23. We call upon all levels of government to:
i. Increase the number of Aboriginal professionals working in the health-care field.
ii. Ensure the retention of Aboriginal health-care providers in Aboriginal communities.
iii. Provide cultural competency training for all health-care professionals.
As of the 2016 census, less than one percent of healthcare specialists and general practitioners in Canada identified as Aboriginal. I wasn't able to find a lot of recent information, but it sounds like the federal government is working on it, sort of...
I know that new nurses in BC generally go through some cultural competency training, and that there are ongoing training opportunities offered to health practitioners, but as far as I can tell, it is not currently mandatory for those already working in the field. So who knows how many healthcare workers are taking advantage of it here in BC.
(It seems to me a lot of these Calls are being taken up at a grassroots level much more than they are being federally implemented.)
Some relevant resources:
Island Health
First Nations Health Authority
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