In the 2017 Provincial Budget that was released to Manitobans yesterday, the government has allocated an increase in health care funding of $107.5 million dollars.
Many residents in Dauphin and surrounding areas are wondering where that leaves the MRI machine that was planned to come to the Dauphin Regional Health Centre.
Manitoba Finance Minister, Cameron Friesen, clarifies how the situation came to be.
"I know Dauphin, I know the health centre, I know the pledge made by the former NDP party, the former NDP government made over $600 million dollars of promises to Manitoba communities in the weeks and the lead up to the last election [...] As the Finance Minister I've been looking at that proposed bid over the course of the last year and I'll tell you that I don't know how they could have implemented the things they said they were going to implement, there simply was not enough room in that health care capital cap."
There will be an increase in spending on primary care services such as universal newborn hearing screening, dialysis treatment, mental health services, cancer drugs and ambulance fees.
