Manitoba New Democrats are promising to improve cardiac care at the St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg if they win the Oct. 3 provincial election.
Leader Wab Kinew says he would spend $5 million a year to set up a centre of excellence for cardiac care.
He says the money would go to hiring five more perfusionists, who operate machinery used during open-heart surgeries, as well as specialists, researchers and other workers.
The New Democrats have focused much of their campaign on health care, including a promise to reopen three Winnipeg hospital emergency rooms that were downgraded by the Progressive Conservative government.
The NDP plan is supported by Bill Gibb, a perfusionist at the St. Boniface Hospital.
He says the cardiac science program has seen positions and funding cut in recent years and remaining workers are on call too often.
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