Saskatoon Health Region apologizes for tubal ligations on Indigenous women
SASKATOON — The Saskatoon Health Region has apologized to Indigenous women who felt coerced into surgery that prevented them from bearing more children.
The agency commissioned an independent report earlier this year after women complained they were pressured by medical staff and social workers after giving birth in hospital to have a tubal ligation, a procedure that involves clamping or severing the Fallopian tubes.
“I’m sorry that you were not treated with the respect, the compassion and all of the support that you needed and deserved,” Jackie Mann, a health region vice-president, said Thursday.
“No woman should ever be treated the way you were treated.”