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The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says it’s time for indigenous peoples to develop their own health care system.

“We want our own hospital, we want our own health services, we want our own pharmaceutical companies. And we can,” FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron said in an interview. “We have the educated people, we have the technicians, we have the political will. We definitely have the numbers.”

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The FSIN announced its idea in a news release on Thursday, the day after the Saskatchewan provincial government accepted a panel recommendation to amalgamate 12 health regions into a single authority.

One option could be an indigenous health authority parallel to the one being put into place, Cameron said.

He pointed to the All Nations Healing Hospital in Fort Qu’Appelle and the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority as examples of indigenous people taking a greater role in the design and delivery of health services.