It's been open for more than a decade, but Winnipeg's $3.5-million birthing centre has not been able to reach close to its intended target number of newborns each year, and that number remains out of reach with current resources, its executive director says.
A physician in Winnipeg is sacrificing some of her family's savings to lure 10 doctors to her practice. She estimates she's putting up around $70,000 per doctor or, $700,000 in total.
A health-care union is repeating fears that a longstanding staffing shortage of medical technologists could lead to the collapse of a lab and put patients at the hospital in Thompson, Man., where 83 per cent of the specialized positions remain vacant.
The provincial government will add 36 new acute-care beds to St. Boniface Hospital as a means of addressing mounting wait times in emergency rooms and other pressures on the health-care system.