NDP health critic Don Davies says new dental care program should improve First Nations benefits
Dental benefits for Indigenous people should be improved if the new national dental insurance plan offers better or more accessible services, NDP health critic Don Davies said Wednesday.
“I’m working with [Indigenous Services Minister Patty] Hajdu, who is responsible for the NIHB, to see how we can learn from their experiences and their lessons in order to provide a better program to non-Indigenous Canadians, based on what we do for Indigenous Canadians,” Duclos said in an interview last month.
“They’re going without their dentures and they’re saying it hurts, it cuts them because their mouth has shifted and they can’t get another pair for five years,” Martin said of some of her clients. “NIHB does not cover a lot of prevention, which is really our focus at this point,” Sylvie Martel said at a news conference in Ottawa last week.
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