Hopes high for new health centre under construction at Abegweit First Nation [Video]

Abegweit First Nation is hoping that a new health centre being built in the central P.E.I. community of Scotchfort, expected to be open by next year, will answer the needs of the surrounding area as well as the Indigenous community.

With a rising population thanks to a number of First Nation initiatives, Chief Junior Gould said services need to grow too.

“We have to grow in an ever-expanding community, at every capacity, whether it be the health centre, or the daycare or the housing.”

The current wellness centre can’t expand any more, let alone make space for a dental office or pharmacy, both eventual goals of community planners. Hence the project to replace it. 

“The new health centre is being located in the front of the community to provide services to the Abegweit First Nation — all of its community, from its youngest to its oldest — but also provide …