Premier Wab Kinew and Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara announced the upcoming provincial budget will include funding to build a new personal care home in Lac du Bonnet.
The Manitoba government is working with three nursing regulatory colleges to create a streamlined path for former nurses to return to work.
The Manitoba government is cutting wait times for Manitobans looking for mental health care by adding psychiatrists to the system and paying professionals to work in rural Manitoba.
To ensure the province can respond to staffing challenges in the health-care system, the Manitoba government approved a $710-million special warrant.
Together, the governments of Canada and Manitoba are working to bring more health-care workers to the front lines, reducing wait times and delivering the best possible care to Manitobans.
At the third stop of the Manitoba government’s health-care listening tour, Premier Wab Kinew, Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara and Housing, Addictions and Homelessness Minister Bernadette Smith met with rural health-care workers at the Selkirk Mental Health Centre to hear their experiences on the front lines.
A new provincially funded program to mentor and support physicians in the first five years of their practice will help Manitoba retain and recruit new doctors.
Manitoba public health officials are updating the routine immunization program to better protect infants and children from meningococcal disease with broader immunity that will help prevent serious outcomes from these infections.
The Manitoba government is adding more physician hours at the minor treatment clinic at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Winnipeg in a four-week pilot project to help reduce wait times in the hospital’s emergency department.
The Manitoba government is following through on its commitment to listen to front-line health-care workers with the launch of an online survey and upcoming in-person conversations at numerous health-care facilities across the province.