New Diabetes Care Center in Sioux Lookout

A new step in health care has arrived in Sioux Lookout.
Toady marks the grand opening of the Center for Complex Diabetes Care Program at the Meno Ya Win Health Center.
The facility will provide services for patients with diabetes, as well as health issues associated with it.
These include vascular disease, renal failure, impaired vision, mental illness and those who have had recurrent diabetic emergencies.
Diabetes has become very highly common in the First Nations communities in Northwestern Ontario.
Other challenges with the disease are accessing health care, extensive travel away from home, and the high costs of medication and treatment.
Those in attendance at the opening ceremony were family members of Raymond Ningewance of Lac Seul First Nation, who passed away due to complications of diabetes.
His family made a donation of $1000 to the center.