The chief of Neskantaga First Nation is calling on the federal government to quickly help set up a mobile health centre in the remote community due to flooding that has closed its nursing station.

Chief Gary Quisses and the northwestern Ontario community's council declared a state of emergency on Sunday after health-care staff noticed water seeping from the walls and a strong smell of fuel.

The First Nation, where fewer than 400 people live about 450 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, has also …