Alberta Health Services officials confirm there is no health risk to the public in connection with Wednesday’s emergency response on the Stoney Nakoda First Nation that saw fourteen members of a family transported from the scene in ambulance.
According to an AHS statement released Friday afternoon, the patients that were admitted to hospital were suffering from a ‘variety of common respiratory viruses’.
Stoney Child and Family Services representatives confirm nine of the family’s children have returned home. Several of the children were spotted walking outside the Alberta Children’s Hospital on Friday wearing surgical masks.
A total of 14 members of the family were transported to hospital on Wednesday but how many members of the family were admitted to hospital has not been released.
RCMP officials say the 15 people who were in the home when first responders arrived on Wednesday consisted of a couple and their 13 children, two of which were over the age of 18. Crews were called to the location along Spring Road, north of Highway 1A, following reports children were in medical distress.
RCMP members continue to investigate the death of the four-month-old girl who was pronounced dead at the family’s home on Wednesday. An autopsy was scheduled to occur on Friday but the Office of the Medical Examiner has yet to release the results.
With files from CTV"s Chris Epp
