Quebec coroner’s inquest into death of Joyce Echaquan begins today

May 13, 2021 | 1:04 AM

MONTREAL — A coroner’s inquest is set to begin today in the death of an Indigenous woman who was subjected to insults by staff while she lay dying in a Quebec hospital. 

Joyce Echaquan, 37, an Atikamekw mother of seven, filmed herself at the Joliette, Que., hospital last September as female staff were caught on the Facebook Live video insulting and mocking her.

The video circulated widely on social media and prompted widespread indignation across the country.

Echaquan, from the community of Manawan, north of Montreal, died on Sept. 28 after being admitted with stomach pain.