Manitoba’s first hyperbaric oxygen clinic, set to open in Winnipeg this September
Posted August 21, 2025 4:57 pm.
Last Updated August 21, 2025 9:40 pm.
Manitoba’s first hyperbaric oxygen clinic is set to open in St. James this fall. Inside are pressurized chambers, for patients to breathe near-pure oxygen, a therapy recognized for treating everything from carbon monoxide poisoning to sports injuries.
Prairie Hyperbarics will open its doors on Portage Avenue, aiming to treat up the twenty-one patients a day inside three large oxygen chambers. Health Canada has recognized hyperbaric oxygen therapy as effective for more than a dozen conditions.
“We are basically pioneering Hyperbaric in Manitoba; we are the largest medical clinic in Manitoba and Saskatchewan,” said Martin Hiebert, the founder of Prairie Hyperbarics.
“You might come in for a concussion, stroke, or carbon monoxide, but it will treat anything else you got, and that’s why this is so great, it’s not a miracle drug, it’s a natural healer.”
Hiebert knows the treatment firsthand. He underwent dozens of sessions in Calgary after a cancer diagnosis left him with organ damage. He says that treatment saved his life, which is why he wanted to offer this service locally.
“After all those treatments here, I am, so I said, ‘Why don’t we have that in Manitoba?’ So I started working on the plan and doing the research, found a doctor, and found a place,” said Hiebert.
The chambers simulate the pressure of being thirty feet underwater, circulating nearly pure oxygen. Sessions last around 80 minutes, broken into intervals of high oxygen and regular air.
Hiebert says they are waiting on final accreditation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba before opening, but says interest is high.
“We were contacted by the Misericordia Hospital in Edmonton, this is outside of our hub, and they have patients waiting for us and asked us when are you guys ready to go,” said Hiebert.
Hiebert says the multi-million-dollar project could also see a future expansion, especially if Manitoba’s health system gets on board. The clinic is pushing for a September opening.
