If you go to a Winnipeg emergency room with a medical emergency, possibilities are you will wait longer for treatment than anywhere else in the country.
If you go to a rural Manitoba ER with a medical emergency, there may not be a doctor on staff.
So, what will our next government do to make better our health care prognosis?
You find out this on the day of Wednesday, when Information Radio 89.3 FM goes live on-location at the Subway restaurant right across the street from Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre.
You will meet candidates from the 4 main parties and hear what they would do to meet our medical requirements, if they are elected into office.
We will also hear from stakeholders who have their own concerns about healthcare.
Meet Gwen Traverse — health director, Pinaymootang Health Centre
She and her team of nurses in Fairford, Man., struggle with place hospitals closing ERs and diverting sufferers to hospitals further away.
The most recent case? A 3-month-old infant who had stopped breathing.
Nurses performed CPR for a full hour while waiting for an ambulance.
"We could not give up. Non-stop for a full hour. It was heartbreaking for them," she stated.
Once the ambulance arrived, it bypassed 2 hospitals because their emergency rooms were closed, despite the logic there were doctors available.
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