Quebec’s coroner’s office will be looking into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from the Atikamekw Nation of Manawan, who passed away amid troubling circumstances in a Joliette hospital on Monday.The mother of seven went to hospital after experiencing stomach pains and died a few days later.Before her death, Echaquan took a cellphone video from her hospital bed and livestreamed it on Facebook.
In the video shared on social media, Echaquan appears to be in distress. She can be heard screaming and seems to be out of breath.Near the end of the video, which lasts around seven minutes, hospital personnel enter the room.