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Fed Up With Deaths, Native Americans Want to Run Their Own Health Care [nytimes.com]

 

By Mark Walker, The New York Times, October 15, 2019

When 6-month-old James Ladeaux got his second upper respiratory infection in a month, the doctor at the Sioux San Indian Health Service Hospital reassured his mother, Robyn Black Lance, that it was only a cold.

But 12 hours later James was struggling to breathe. Ms. Black Lance rushed her son back to the hospital in western South Dakota, where the doctors said they did not have the capacity to treat him and transferred him to a private hospital in Rapid City. There he was given a diagnosis of a life-threatening case of respiratory syncytial virus.

“They told me if I hadn’t brought him back in, he would have died,” Ms. Black Lance said, choking back tears.

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