Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 18: Health (18-24)

Lack of health services offered in Inuktitut

May 30, 2018

The lack of health services offered in Indigenous languages is impeding the delivery of care to Indigenous populations, according to Aluki Kotierk, president of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, which administers treaty rights for the 49 000 Inuit inhabitants of Nunavut. The first language of 75% of the Inuit population in Nunavut is Inuktitut, yet patients are unlikely to hear it spoken by health care providers.