Manitoba was to receive 150 doctors from a recruitment firm. Province got 2

A staffing agency by Manitoba’s former Progressive Orthodox government managed to bring only two in the promise of recruiting 150 doctors to the province.

A two -year contract with Canadian Health Labs was initially included as a significant piece in Manitoba’s efforts to find more doctors, especially in rural and northern areas, where jobs are usually difficult to fill.

But the contract ended last month, the current NDP government did not give its option for the third year. This confirmed Radio-Canada that only two doctors were recruited under the contract.

The fact that the company has recruited more than only one percent of the 150 doctors, it is disappointing for the brain mueller, who is looking for a family doctor in the styneback for 12 years.

“Where do they find these recruitment companies?” He asked.

“Maybe start asking questions if you have only two doctors in two years. Something can happen.”

Company under fire

Canadian Health Labs, who started recruitment of health care professionals during the Kovid-19 epidemic, has set fire to the Atlantic provinces for agency nurses to charge at the rate of more than $ 300 per hour-what an employee nurse earns-and the nurses despite being disclosed to the nurses to pay their own food.

In New Breanswick, Vitalit Health Network has tried to get out of its deal with Canadian Health Labs Cancellation of remaining innings For the company’s travel nurses before its contract ended in 2026.

That province enacted law this year Mold the government with any legal or financial penalty Regarding its contract, while Canadian Health Labs replied trial,

Manitoba’s deal with Canadian health laboratories, Signed in July 2023 Following a competitive request for the process of proposals, 50 physicians were demanded to be brought to Vinypeg, 50 to North Manitoba and 50 to other rural communities.

When the deal was announced, Health Minister Audrey Gordon said that he is confident that the staffing agency would meet its goals, with punishment with punishment if the targets are not achieved in some stages.

Eight months later, without the recruitment of a single doctor, The company told CBC News It did “work in significant amounts” in recruiting family physicians in Manitoba. Shared health, which oversees health care distribution in the province, said that at that point the province had “assigned dedicated recruitments in many countries.”

The government said in a statement that the contract of the province with Canadian Health Labs was $ 5.25 million, but Manitoba would recruit only two physicians – between $ 25,000 and $ 45,000 for each doctor, the government said in a statement.

The company did not respond to repeated requests for comments from Radio-Canada.

Two doctors admitted under the contract are originally from the United Kingdom and started their practices in Vinnipag.

In 2023-24, Manitoba saw 133 net growth of doctors – The biggest record on records according to doctors Manitoba – but A report by advocacy groupCiting the Canadian Institute for Health Information Data, the province is still in second place among the doctors per capita in Canada, with 219 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants.

Steinback’s Muller said that he enrolled in the province Family doctor finding program in 2013. He did not listen back till 2021.

“When I (called), I was surprised, because I was very forgotten that I was also on the list.”

They told her that they could still not match her with a doctor, and then asked if she still wanted to be on the list.

He removed himself because he believes that the provincial program is ineffective. Instead, she is still calling a styneback clinic whenever people tell her that a doctor is accepting new patients. But whenever she calls, she told that they are not accepting anyone else.

“Some will change,” Muller said.

She will switch to one in steinback with her Vinnipag physician, if she can, her doctor takes several hours to see, when accounting for the time of travel and appointment.

“This community, ever since I went here, is booming. This amount of people is crazy” is going to a city of 17,000 people in a styneback, which is just more than 50 kilometers than Vinnipag.

“But health care is still similar, if not worse,” he said.

The office of Health Minister Uzoma Asgwara, citing government data, said that since the NDP government was elected in October 2023, 201 net new doctors have started practicing in Manitoba, and additional 12 have accepted a proposal to work.

The minister focused on recruiting the new office of the government and maintaining health care workers for this success.

Concerned about future lack

The net profit puts more than half of the NDP towards his election promise of 400 additional physicians.

The President of Doctor Manitoba, Dr. Nikale Desals said that progress is appreciated, but “we cannot rest on our praise.”

“In 10 years, our elderly population is getting more than now which is now and more health care resources are also required,” he said.

Desilets stated that the best recruitment strategy is an existing task force of those who love and support their work.

Progressive Orthodox Deputy Leader Jeff Bereza said the province deal with Canadian health laboratories “So far a successful PC program is another example of NDP inherited, and has been established to thwart.”

In a statement, Bereza compared the contract with health care Recruitment mission for Philippines And this Surgical and Diagnostic Task ForceBoth Tory Government initiative.

“NDP destroyed both and falsely claimed that they did not work. They did not try,” he said.

“This is the time for NDP to stop blaming the PC for their health care failures, and start taking Manitobans on their choice promises.”