While Puckrin based the show in part around how her sister and brother-in-law met as a nurse and pilot, she said SkyMed is particularly focused on the lack of medical care available to northern communities. Northern exposureSkyMed isn't the only production to showcase the realities of living in Northern Canada. Wajuntah, who was born in Thompson, Manitoba, and grew up in northern Saskatchewan, said those are the biggest issues many northern residents want dealt with. "Northern communities have a unique set of challenges," she said. "Canadians complain about our health care system — wait times accessing, going to the E.R., that kind of thing — but for northern Indigenous communities in particular, those challenges are exacerbated times ten."

Source: CBC News July 16, 2022 16:58 UTC