Photo: Nunavut premier helps launch TB clinic in Qikiqtarjuaq

From left, Dr. Mike Patterson, Nunavut Health Minister Pat Angnakak, Nunavut Premier Paul Quassa and executive secretary Kailey Arreak help launch a major tuberculosis prevention clinic in Qikiqtarjuaq Feb. 9. A number of TB specialists and health care staff are in Qikiqtarjuaq over the next few weeks to screen residents of the Baffin community, which has the highest incidence of the infection in Nunavut. As of Feb. 14, 144 people have been screened. (PHOTO COURTESY OF GN)