Health care for your family, when you need it

Timely access to high quality health care is a priority for all Manitobans. Your family’s health is also our priority.

Greg Selinger and your NDP have worked hard to turn our hospitals and care facilities around and repair the damage caused by the deep cuts of the 1990s.

That’s why we’ve put nearly 500 more doctors and 3000 more nurses on the job. We’ve decreased wait times and increased medical school spaces and financial grants to train more care professionals. And we’ve built and modernized over 100 health care facilities.

Together we’ve made a lot of progress, but we can’t stop here.

We’ll continue to train and hire more doctors, nurses and health workers and ensure they have the tools they need. For everyday Manitobans, that will mean faster, more convenient care from some of the best-trained doctors and nurses in Canada.

Health care isn’t a priority for Hugh McFadyen’s PCs.

In the 1990s, when Hugh McFadyen was Gary Filmon’s most senior advisor, the PCs fired over a thousand nurses, cut the medical school and froze investments in our care facilities.

Hugh McFadyen’s PCs still believe in cutting and cancelling projects. One of McFadyen’s MLAs made the PCs’ priorities clear when he said they’re picking, “the issues that we’re going to win an election on”. Health care isn’t on their list.

Today, Hugh McFadyen’s plan to limit health care funding would mean a $750 million cut from this year’s health budget alone. That’s too big a risk for our health care system.

Let’s keep building and improving Manitoba’s health care system.

With smart, practical solutions, Greg Selinger and your NDP are:

• Hiring more doctors and nurses to get families the care they need faster;
• Ensuring that all Manitobans can access a family doctor by 2015;
• Cutting wait times with more specialists and leading edge technologies;
• Making lifesaving investments to have the fastest cancer detection and treatment program in Canada;
• Providing more families in remote communities with care through new Primary Care Health Buses;
• Innovating within the system to save money, increase efficiency and improve the quality of care patients receive;
• Bringing more services closer to your home, such as dialysis expansions in Gimli, Swan River, Berens River, Peguis and Russell; and
• Building more personal care home beds and increasing access to home care services.

Together, we can keep Manitoba on track and moving forward. Let’s keep building. Don’t turn back.