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MLA Report - July 19, 2019

Progressive Conservative government committed to improving critical care services for Manitobans and opposed to federal health-care transfer cuts
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Our government is investing $414 million more in health care this year than the NDP did in 2016, their final year in office when Manitobans experienced the longest emergency department wait times in the entire country. After we were elected to fix the finances, repair the services and rebuild the economy in our province, Manitoba was the only province in Canada to reduce health-care wait times, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. And we did it without raising taxes.

An important part of health care in Manitoba is the Northern Patient Transport Program, which remains unchanged as it has for years. As of this past July 8, the majority of Lifeflight physicians had resumed full participation in the air ambulance service. While we secure jet services for certain patient transports, turboprop air service is being used in the interim. Turboprop planes are capable of landing on paved and unpaved runways, including the shorter gravel runways in many communities in northern Manitoba, and are among the most commonly used aircraft for medical transport.

For patient transport on the ground, we have reduced the ambulance fee to less than half of what it was under the previous NDP government. Ambulance service now costs no more than $250, well below the $522 that Manitobans paid under the NDP.

Our Progressive Conservative government remains deeply committed to ensuring critical care services for patients throughout Manitoba are improved, and we oppose the federal Liberal government’s decision to cut health-care transfers to the provinces. The provincial Liberal and NDP leaders need to explain to Manitobans why they support the federal Liberal government’s decision to cut health-care transfers. Our Manitoba government refuses to go back to the bottom of health care in Canada. A re-elected PC government will continue to make meaningful investments that put patients first and deliver better care, sooner.

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