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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:45:35 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Brandon Wapoose 8 months - dies, malnutrition
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Wednesday, June 23, 1999 Mother fed baby coffee whitener
Inquiry into child's death
By TONY BLAIS, Edmonton Sun
EDMONTON -- Ten-month-old Brandon Wapoose was being fed an unhealthy diet
that included diluted CoffeeMate, a fatality
inquiry into his death heard yesterday. The infant from the Fox Lake
Reserve, a small community in northern Alberta, died April 7, 1998 at
Edmonton's University Hospital after being admitted two weeks earlier with
severe malnutrition. Wapoose, who also suffered from a viral illness,
ended up at University Hospital after going from the Fox Lake nursing
station, to a hospital in Fort Vermilion and then to a hospital in Grande
Prairie. The inquiry, being held in Edmonton's provincial court for three
days, is a continuation from two days of hearings held in Fort Vermilion on
May 25 and 26.
Dr. Elizabeth Robinson, a pediatrician at Grande Prairie's Queen
Elizabeth II Hospital, testified Wapoose was dehydrated and had
breathing problems, swollen limbs and abnormal blood results.
After interviewing Brandon's mother Monica, Robinson learned she had been
feeding him diluted CoffeeMate. An examination of his level of growth
indicated "he was not growing," said Robinson -- adding that he was so
dehydrated, he could not produce tears. Dr. Ari Joffe, a pediatrician at
University Hospital, testified that Wapoose deteriorated after March 30 and
had to be put on life support.
After a conversation with Monica, Joffe said he learned that
Brandon "was most often fed CoffeeMate with water." Barbara Kilpatrick, a
registered nurse at the Fox Lake nursing station, testified that the band
office would buy formula if a prescription was provided. But Monica failed
to show up at the doctor's. Monica said she was feeding Brandon canned
condensed milk, Kilpatrick added. Debra Vermunt, also a registered nurse
at the Fox Lake nursing station, testified that Brandon's mother called the
station drunk one night and said she had no food for her baby. "I told her
that we could give her some formula if someone sober came over," said
Vermunt. Court also heard that Brandon and his older sister, Reatha, both
suffered from rickets -- a disease caused by a deficiency of calcium or
Vitamin D.
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