Manitoba cuts down doctor shortage with 133 new physicians since last year

For the archetypal clip successful implicit a decade, Manitoba is cutting down connected its doc shortage.

A caller study from Doctors Manitoba shows a nett summation of 133 doctors successful the past year, which is the largest summation connected record. The state is present 346 doctors distant from hitting the nationalist mean of doctors per capita, which sits astatine 243 doctors per 100,000 people. Manitoba presently has 219 per 100,000.

“This affirmative quality suggests Manitoba whitethorn beryllium turning the corner,” says Dr. Randy Guzman, committee president of Doctors Manitoba. “We person to spot aggregate years of betterment to marque definite this is simply a affirmative inclination and a measurement successful the close direction.”

However, the state inactive sits 2nd past successful the provincial ranking of doctors per capita, up of lone Prince Edward Island. Manitoba besides has the lowest complaint of household physicians, and the third-lowest complaint of specialists.

Guzman besides highlights Manitobans are astatine hazard of losing galore of the doctors they already have. More enactment is needed to pull and clasp physicians if the state is going to determination up successful the rankings.

“We’re astatine hazard of losing 688 doctors implicit the adjacent 3 years to different provinces oregon to retirement,” says Guzman. “To enactment that successful perspective, that’s 20 per cent of our full doc workforce, and that’s much than the fig of students we person successful each 4 years of aesculapian school.”

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In 2001, Manitoba had the 4th astir physicians per capita. That ranking dropped successful the pursuing years, and has been sitting astatine second-last spot since 2020.

According to Doctors Manitoba’s report, the doc shortage had been climbing steadily since 2013, and reached a grounds precocious past year.