If elected, NDP promises new CancerCare Manitoba HQ, Liberals plan to help post-secondaries
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Manitoba's NDP promised Sunday to build new headquarters for CancerCare Manitoba on the campus of the city's Health Sciences Centre if elected this fall.
NDP Leader Wab Kinew said the building capital would cost $350 million in provincial funds. CancerCare is "bursting at the seams" with staff, he said, but the facility would improve space and lighting issues and the overall quality of care.
"Manitoba has the money in our budget to be able to make this investment," Kinew said during a news conference Sunday morning. "We just need the political will to stand up and say: 'We want to build CancerCare for the future, so let's consider the people of Manitoba and that's what we're committed to doing."
Kinew was short on details about how many people the new building would be able to treat or the number of beds. In terms of staff for the potential new facility's operations, he said he'd start by looking within CancerCare.
He added that while there are "detailed plans," the first step is going to be to look at the scope of them and determine if they meet the current need, or if they need to be updated.
The party's latest promise continued a trend throughout the election campaign, in which almost every announcement made has involved health care.
"We already have the staff, what we need is to be able to give the staff the resources, the space and the equipment so that they can fulfil
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