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Public health officials with Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care are notifying the public of a confirmed measles case, unrelated to previously announced cases, and connected with recent international travel to Pakistan.

The Manitoba government has announced that it will be providing $500,000 to the Women’s Health Clinic to create a provincial community-based child and youth eating disorders program.

The Manitoba government is releasing a series of financial audits of health authorities from the years 2019-20 to 2023-24 that reveal governance failures, a breakdown of communications and worsened patient care.

The Manitoba government has announced that 1,255 net-new health-care workers were added to the provincial workforce as of December 2024.

Public health officials with Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care are notifying the public of five confirmed cases of measles in southern Manitoba, all connected to an outbreak in Ontario.

The Manitoba government has announced that residents can now apply for a modernized plastic health card online. The new cards are part of the Budget that the NDP announced earlier in 2024.

The Manitoba government has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to curb the use of private for-profit nursing agencies in the health-care system as part of a multi-pronged approach to increase the number of public nurses working in health care and reduce mandatory overtime rates for those nurses.

Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care is advising of the first confirmed case of clade lb mpox (monkeypox) in the province, which is also the first case of clade I mpox in Canada. This is a travel-related case associated with an ongoing outbreak of clade I mpox in central and eastern Africa.

The Manitoba government is contributing $25 million toward capital projects at the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Children’s Hospital as part of the Children’s Hospital Foundation Better Futures Campaign, including funding for a renovated and modernized emergency department.

The Manitoba government has launched a new online resource to help women and girls in the province, who menstruate, find locations offering free pads and tampons quickly and easily.