News - Health Care

Manitoba will soon be the first Canadian province to collect race-based data from patients at hospitals throughout the province, as part of an initiative that will collect and analyze racial, ethnic and Indigenous identity data.

A Manitoba delegation is heading to the Philippines next month on a recruitment drive to pave the way for hundreds of qualified internationally educated nurses (IENs) and other health-care providers to move and work here.

The pandemic backlog for ultrasound testing has been eliminated through the work of the Diagnostic and Surgical Recovery Task Force using a multi-pronged approach to build capacity in Manitoba’s health-care system.

The Manitoba government is investing $6.6 million to begin a specialized cancer therapy program at CancerCare Manitoba to offer new care options close to home for people with specific cancers that have not responded well to more conventional treatments.

Investment in innovation by the Manitoba government is supporting Manitoba-based businesses develop innovative products and processes including helping to give Manitobans immediate access to physician care.

A new service will support safe, consistent and timely emergency care by offering health-care providers in rural, northern and some Winnipeg facilities improved access to specialist consultation for clinical advice and transfer of patients.

The Manitoba government is implementing a health human resource action plan moving to end mandating overtime by adding 2,000 health-care professionals with an investment of $200 million to retain, train and recruit health-care staff across the province.

Construction will start soon on a planned renovation and expansion at Boundary Trails Health Centre that will add new acute care inpatient beds and provide a larger, more modern space for patient care programs.

Hundreds of Manitobans who are waiting for a hip or knee replacement surgery will be able to access care more quickly with three new agreements recently signed by the Manitoba government.

Construction to establish a new renal unit that allows dialysis patients to receive care closer to home is now underway at Bethesda Regional Health Centre as part of the first phase of a significant capital project that will expand the site.