Pallister pledges to retain more doctors
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If elected, a Progressive Conservative government would improve doctor retention rates by the end of its first term, PC leader Brian Pallister announced today.
Outside of the Selkirk and District General Hospital, Pallister said the party would achieve this goal by establishing a better recruitment program and hiring experts to improve processes.
Pallister said they would also review the levels of incentives currently being offered by the province, adding he wouldn’t rule out increasing financial incentives.
He believes doctors are being sent out of the province because of the high taxes and general attitude conveyed about Manitoba.
The current doctor retention program, administered by Doctors Manitoba, offers provincially-funded incentives to both family physicians and specialists who practise here for five years.
The NDP says it has added 732 more doctors since 1999.
The NDP government has also provided $500,000 for physician resettlement and $600,000 for specialist recruitment.
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