The provincial government has announced that they will be spending at least $812 million on building, expanding and renovating health-care facilities across Manitoba including $32 million for construction and renovations at Bethesda Regional Health Centre in Steinbach.
The Bethesda project will include 15 additional acute-care medicine beds and eight surgical beds to increase additional surgical capacity, investing in the treatment of patients for a wide variety of needs, including palliative and end-of-life care, chronic and cardiopulmonary disease and women’s health. There will also be pharmacy upgrades that will support the delivery of chemotherapy services and establish Bethesda as a regional cancer care hub. There will also be a six-station unit for hemodialysis.
“The start of construction at Bethesda Regional Health Centre brings us one day closer to reducing the need for those living in or near Manitoba’s third largest city to travel elsewhere for care while providing the site with the necessary capacity to continue growing in the years ahead,” said Health Minister Audrey Gordon.
The other projects that will see new and renovated facilities include:
- expansion and renovation of the Brandon Regional Health Centre and Western Manitoba Cancer Centre;
- construction of a new hospital in Portage la Prairie;
- construction of a new hospital in Neepawa;
- expansion of Boundary Trails Health Centre in Winkler/Morden;
- expansion of the Selkirk Regional Health Centre;
- renovations at Dauphin Regional Health Centre; and
- expansion of Lakeshore General Hospital in Ashern.
