$31M expansion of Selkirk Regional Health Centre underway
Posted September 21, 2022 4:34 pm.
Last Updated September 21, 2022 6:01 pm.
Construction has begun on an expansion of a health facility in Manitoba’s Interlake region.
The province says renovations at the Selkirk Regional Health Centre will allow for an increase in its in-patient capacity, and will allow the site to provide more services.
The expansion is to make room for thirty acute care in-patient beds and three emergency department treatment spaces.
It will also allow the site to perform more surgeries.
The total cost of the project is expected to be $31 million, with the final project expected be completed in late 2024.
Renovations of the health centre’s emergency department are slated to begin this fall.
“Expanding the Selkirk Regional Health Centre will help meet the needs of residents living in Selkirk and the broader health region,” said Marion Ellis, the CEO of the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority. “We appreciate how quickly construction has been initiated on this project.”
In response to the start of the expansion project, Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew blamed the province’s current health-care situation on the Progressive Conservatives.
“Premier Stefanson and Brian Pallister cut $7 million from Selkirk’s ER, forcing them to cut doctor and nurses,” Kinew said in a statement. “The impacts are real. In the last two years, Selkirk’s ER has been under diversion 22 times. Without more health-care workers in the system, these beds won’t fix the crisis the PCs have caused.”
—With files from The Canadian Press.
