Coroner Géhane Kamel is investigating the death of Echaquan. Echaquan is 37-year-old Atikamekw’s mother and has seven children. She filmed herself being insulted and mocked by female staff until her death in Montreal’s Northeast Hospital in September last year.

In the video recorded by Echaquan, I listened well and said: “What would your child think when he saw you like this?” Later: “You made the wrong choice.”

In an orderly manner, she told the investigation that she just wanted to motivate her patients, and Echaquan mentioned that she had agreed to go to the hospital “for her children”.

Orderly insists that there is no racism or prejudice against Echaquan, although she admits that she has been informed that Echaquan is withdrawing troops.

She said she just wanted to make her patients move.

The testimony on Wednesday and the fact that the video recorded by Echaquan was shown in court for the first time caused a mood swing on Wednesday. Echaquan’s family members were crying while watching the video and hearing her cry in pain.

Several people had to leave the room.

The interrogation learned that Echaquan was restrained and alone

Earlier, the coroner heard the testimony of two other hospital staff whose names were also protected by a publication ban. Shortly before her death in September last year, after the nurse gave her a sedative, Echaquan was restrained and left alone in her ward for 40 minutes. .

A patient attendant told the investigation that it was a violation of the agreement not to allow constrained patients to be supervised at Joliette Hospital.

The waiter said: “No one is with Joyce,” Joyce had to pause several times during Wednesday’s testimony to make her hold her breath while crying.

The patient waiter on Wednesday provided more insights into what happened on the day of Echaquan’s death on September 28, 2020.She testified that Echaquan was calm and chatting on the phone when she saw her for the first time around 8 am

However, when the patient attendant returned from the break at around 10:15 in the morning, Echaquan knelt on her hospital bed, banged her head against the wall, and screamed.

The waiter tried to calm her down. She said: “But I can’t even get her attention-it’s empty, as if she wasn’t there.”

Echaquan was taken to a private room and sedated by a nurse, by which time she had calmed down. The waiter that day was the only one on the floor, taking care of 38 people, and then returned to the floor.

“It’s messy.”

She testified that at 11 o’clock in the morning, the situation got worse. Her colleague called her to Echaquan’s room again.

She saw that Echaquan’s feet and hands were binding, and said that she was asked to add a waist belt to properly secure the patient. She told investigators that this restraint is used when patients pose a threat to themselves or others.

The patient attendant said she didn’t know what happened before that.

She told the coroner: “They just told me she was lying on the bathroom floor.”

The nurse stopped the Facebook Live video

During that time, she said that the nurse told her in a panic that Echaquan “is photographing us. She photographed everything. I deleted it.”

A Facebook Live video shared by Echaquan that day showed a nurse and another patient waiter in the room calling Echaquan stupid, saying that she had better die.

The phone record disclosed to investigators last week as evidence showed that no video was actually deleted from Echaquan’s phone call, but Facebook Live was stopped.

Following the hospital agreement, whenever a person was filmed, the patient attendant testified that she went to tell her supervisor about the video, and then returned to her other patients.

Student nurse and attendant testify about transfer

During this time, a student nurse in charge of Echaquan’s floor was trying to find someone to supervise Echaquan.

The student nurse testified that she had never dealt with the patient before that day and was not sure how to deal with the situation. She said that a doctor approved her request and asked her to look for someone to watch Echaquan while constrained, but since no one was watching, she was told to “figure it out”.

Several staff members are on lunch break, and the student nurse said that she has several other patients with serious illnesses that need to be monitored.

Forty minutes later, because the student nurse still couldn’t find anyone to watch Echaquan, a resident gastroenterologist who wanted to talk to Echaquan about her treatment told the student nurse that she was “acting”. The student nurse testified that this was an expression used to describe a patient who pretended to sleep in order to avoid asking questions.

The student nurse checked Echaquan’s vital signs. “When I saw her, I immediately knew she was in poor condition.”

Seeing that her pulse was weak, she asked to transfer Echaquan to the recovery room, but again, she had to wait and was told that they were full.

The student nurse said: “I don’t think I’m serious.” She pointed out that she decided to conduct a self-examination. She found that there was a bed available, but she had to wait ten minutes before transferring it.

The patient attendant testified that she was called to Echaquan’s room. When she arrived, she said that Echaquan’s daughter was there, but no other staff were present.

The patient attendant testified that she knew immediately what was wrong.

“I thought’Oh my God, we have a problem.'”

She appealed for help, told a colleague that “she was not breathing”, and quickly took Echaquan to the hospital. Resuscitation room.

Two patient waiters tried to resuscitate her for 45 minutes, but were unsuccessful.

Distribution among the staff of Atikamekw Community Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

When testifying, the patient attendant apologized to the family and said that she hoped that the hospital and the Atikamekw community could reconcile.

She said that language barriers have always been a barrier to correctly interacting with Atikamekw patients.

But since Echaquan’s death, she said that there has been a disagreement.

“There is this fear-we don’t know what to say, they seem to fear us.”

She said that in order to improve the relationship, many changes need to be made, including more resources and more training for translating Atikamekw in the emergency room, which should have been done long ago.

“No one has ever heard that someone has to die for the development of things.”