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THUNDER BAY — Five years after the Broken Trust report called for the establishment of a forensic pathology unit in Thunder Bay to conduct autopsies in unnatural or suspicious death cases in Northwestern Ontario, the recommendation remains unfulfilled.
In his report, OIPRD director Gerry McNeilly stated that the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service "believes that it must provide high quality regionalized death investigation service delivery in northern Ontario and that it is important for the OFPS to provide medico-legal autopsy services that are compatible with cultural and societal norms in First Nation communities."
In 2020, an OIPRD review of the implementation of all 44 of its recommendations disclosed that the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service and the Office of the Chief Coroner "continue to advocate" for the establishment of the unit "to ensure seamless and timely death investigations." In addition to citing workload issues, the hospital said "it is recognized that from a quality perspective, medicolegal autopsies are best performed in the recognized Ontario Forensic Pathology Units."
Rae added that "it is a priority to deliver services regionally, whenever possible," but that cases sometimes have to be transferred from Northwestern Ontario to the state-of-the-art facility in Toronto.
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