Photo: Repulse Bay opens new health centre

A snow knife cuts a sealskin ribbon to officially open the new Repulse Bay Health Centre on May 11. Assisting with the ribbon cutting, from left to right: John Ningark, MLA for Kugaaruk and Repulse Bay; Lorne Kusugak, Nunavut’s minister of Community and Government Services; Keith Peterson, Nunavut’s health minister, and Repulse Bay Mayor Hugh Haqpi. Construction of the new $23.5 million health centre started in 2011. Read more about the opening later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NUNAVUT)