Canada’s health system often fails to properly treat Black women and girls. A national survey aims to change that

She was sent home with an infection that she didn’t know she had because she wasn’t told how to look for it on her skin tone. When doctors and nurses told her what to watch out for during post-cancer-surgery care, simple but vital information was missing. She was taught what the appearance of infection would look like, but it did not include descriptions of the appearance on diverse skin tones, only white. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW