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Manitoba Health has Fiscal Wings Clipped
JMT:
The Province has instituted a debt cap for Manitoba Health. That means hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure spending has been cancelled. I'm not sure that I like the idea, as I'm all for moving forward and getting better and more capable facilities. Still, it seems that the NDP were in fact spending like drunken sailors with no way out of deficit in sight. I think austerity is something we're going to have to live with in this province.
cybercoma:
I've said it before, deficits or not, the boomers are going to be filling hospitals soon. Infrastructure spending is desperately needed now in all of the provinces or we're going to be in trouble trying to care for the elderly.
JMT:
Yes, that presents a real problem. I'm not sure what the answer is. One of the things that has apparently been cancelled is a new facility for Cancer Care Manitoba. As cancer rates increase with age, I can see that leading to an issue.
JMT:
I found a link:
Personal care home in Lac du Bonnet (estimated cost $32 million).
Northern consultation clinic in Thompson ($9 million).
St. Vital primary care access clinic ($4.7 million).
The Pas primary care clinic ($5.3 million).
CancerCare Manitoba facility ($300 million).
Navaratnam said the CancerCare centre, which would have put all of its services together under one roof, cannot be built without provincial funding. It currently rents space in several buildings.
Plans for a blood bank in St. Boniface, which had not been previously announced, will also not go ahead. The PCs say that project was estimated to cost $2.1 million.
Three other projects that were announced by the NDP have not been approved by the Treasury Board:
A new facility for the Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg.
A Concordia wellness centre.
An international centre for dignity and palliative care.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-health-projects-goertzen-funding-1.3972954
BTW - this is my regional health centre:
A government spokesperson told CBC News that aside from an MRI facility for the Dauphin Health Centre, for which a decision is pending,
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They're building the facility. You can go and see it. With this government, there's a good chance it will sit empty without an MRI for...ever.
Blueblood:
--- Quote from: jmt18325 on February 08, 2017, 07:51:24 pm ---I found a link:
Personal care home in Lac du Bonnet (estimated cost $32 million).
Northern consultation clinic in Thompson ($9 million).
St. Vital primary care access clinic ($4.7 million).
The Pas primary care clinic ($5.3 million).
CancerCare Manitoba facility ($300 million).
Navaratnam said the CancerCare centre, which would have put all of its services together under one roof, cannot be built without provincial funding. It currently rents space in several buildings.
Plans for a blood bank in St. Boniface, which had not been previously announced, will also not go ahead. The PCs say that project was estimated to cost $2.1 million.
Three other projects that were announced by the NDP have not been approved by the Treasury Board:
A new facility for the Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg.
A Concordia wellness centre.
An international centre for dignity and palliative care.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-health-projects-goertzen-funding-1.3972954
BTW - this is my regional health centre:
A government spokesperson told CBC News that aside from an MRI facility for the Dauphin Health Centre, for which a decision is pending,
----
They're building the facility. You can go and see it. With this government, there's a good chance it will sit empty without an MRI for...ever.
--- End quote ---
There is a huge deficit that needs to be dealt with. What's supposed to happen? It has to get paid one way or another. I think the millenial generation is going to learn the hard way that the boomer generation lived very high on the hog...
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