Manitoba parents ‘helpless’ as toddler lacks public health care coverage
Global News
In the months before they left Manitoba for South Korea, they were given permanent residency cards they had earlier applied for -- and found out they were expecting.
A young family of three seem to have reached a dead end in Manitoba’s health care system.
Irene Baek from South Korea, and Pengyu Xi from China, both went to school and worked in the province up until recent years when they went to South Korea to care for Baek’s sick mother.
They stayed there longer than expected due to the pandemic.
In the months before they left Manitoba, they were given permanent residency cards they had earlier applied for — and found out they were expecting Jaden, who was born in South Korea.
“When we applied for our PR card, we didn’t have Jaden then,” Baek said. So, when they received the cards, “he was also not on the application. So now we’re back with our PR card, but he’s a visitor status.”
Two-year-old Jaden’s visitor status means he cannot be added as a dependent to his parents’ health coverage.
Baek said that caught her and Xi off-guard, knowing immigrants on work permits can secure public health care for their children.
“I’m just really upset, but I don’t know what I can do. It’s just how the system is. And I wasn’t expecting this, you know? Before I came here, I didn’t really (think) this was a challenge that we had to face,” she said.
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