A New Credit First Nation girl can continue to treat her cancer with traditional aboriginal treatments rather than undergo chemotherapy.
Makayla Sault received national media attention after posting a video explaining her decision to YouTube last week.
In the video, she said the chemo treatment was “killing her body” with side effects including mouth sores and nausea.
She was diagnosed with leukemia in January, and was travelling from her New Credit home to Hamilton for treatment.
“I have asked my mom and dad to take me off the treatment because I don’t want to go this way anymore,” she said in the video.
The Children’s Aid Society was notified of these events. Hospital officials said doing so is normal procedure whenever a parent denies consent for life-saving medical treatment.
A meeting was held Tuesday between the Children’s Aid society and the Sault family, the result of which was that all parties agreed Sault could continue to take traditional aboriginal medicine instead of chemotherapy.
“We did not feel it was … our job to force Makayla to do treatment she and her family felt was not being of benefit to her,” Sally Rivers, director of native services for the Children’s Aid Society of Brant, told CTV News following the meeting.
With files from CTVNews.ca
