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In a precedent-setting ruling announced on Friday, Ontario Court Justice Gethin Edward assured that the family of an 11-year-old First Nations girl from the Brantford area, Makayla Sault, is entitled to rely on traditional medicine to treat her cancer.
The judge was told that Sault is close to death with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is a disease that has an 80 to 95 per cent chance of being cured by chemotherapy. The case was file by McMaster Children’s Hospital, which wanted to force Brant Family and Children’s Services to take her into care but both had refused. Whereas on the other hand, the girl’s family wanted to take her for private treatment at the Hippocrates Health Institute. New Credit First Nations Chief, Bryan LaForme, alleged that “it upholds our traditional rights.” Announcing the ruling, Brantford Superior Court judge alleged that traditional medicine is integral to aboriginal culture and it is the girl’s right to use it to battle cancer. The decision was applauded by the audience in the packed the courtroom, which led to hugging and tears from the aboriginal community. One of the family members could be noticeably seen crying into the phone, saying that “it is dismissed.”
Makayla’s cancer has relapsed, provincial court family division heard during the case of a second aboriginal girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who has also refused chemotherapy in favour of traditional healing. She can’t be identified because of a publication ban.
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