Visitors are only permitted in a small narrow lounge downstairs. Meals are open only to residents, and meal hours are fixed. Many say they hate the food and complain that only third-rate snacks are available between meals. There's also no smoking allowed inside the building, and alchohol and drugs are forbidden. Intoxicated people aren't allowed to step foot in the house.
Some workers are concerned about the small size of the elevators and other safety issues.
But the management is having its own problems at Nunavik House. Booze and dope parties Serge Auclair, the supervisor of patient service delivery at the Inuulitsivik Hospital in Puvirnituq. Drunken parties are a continuing hassle. While anyone who's intoxicated isn't let in, there's no way to stop people from bringing in bottles of liquor or bags of drugs. A look at workers' daily incident reports shows that there are weekly booze and dope parties in the rooms and common areas, some of which result in violence and calls to the police.