Celebrating Over 25 Years of Service to Our Communities! Dawson Trail Dispatch Better Health Care for Rural Manitoba

Care paramedics work their full scope of practice. While we’re at it, we’ll improve rural cell phone connectivity so that your emergency call doesn’t drop.

We’ll give health care staff like nurses and lab technologists a competitive offer to work in rural Manitoba to keep the Ste Anne’s ER open.

We’ll connect you with the best specialists. Our plan will bring the best health technology to rural Manitoba so you can be seen by a cardiac specialist at St. Boniface in Winnipeg without leaving your home community. This team model provides more support to rural doc- tors and better care for you.

We’ll ensure seniors get the care they need to stay healthy at home. Homecare workers shouldn’t have to pay extra to work in rural Manitoba. We’ll pay them properly for their mileage so seniors can get the care they need to live independently. And should seniors need another level of care, we’ll deliver on the PCs broken promise to build more personal care home beds in rural Manitoba.

Brian Pallister and Heather Stefanson have done a lot of damage to rural health care. But this year we can chose better health care and a brighter future for Dawson Trail.

By Chris Wiebe

These days it seems that almost everyone in our community has a health care horror story. Maybe it’s a terrifying drive down the highway because you can’t afford to wait for an ambulance or the shock of finding the Ste Anne’s ER closed for the evening when your loved one needs emergency care. But the reality is the impact of Brian Pallister and Heather Stefanson’s health care cuts go beyond health care. PC health care cuts make it hard for families to imagine a future here.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

This week Wab Kinew and our NDP Team announced our plan to start fixing rural health care in Virden. Our plan has common sense solutions that will deliver better health care and a brighter future for families in Dawson Trail for generations to come.

We’ll bring more doctors to rural communities by restoring the rural physician recruitment fund that Brian Pallister cut. That means better primary and emergency care for families.

We’ll reduce wait times for ambulances by fixing the staffing crisis that grew under Brian Pallister and Heather Stefanson. We’ll pay rural paramedics the same as those in Winnipeg, and allow Advanced