Manitoba has seen an increase of 201 net new physicians practising in the province since the NDP formed government.

Another 12 have accepted offers and are set to begin their practices in the coming months, Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said in a statement Wednesday.

A contract with Canadian Health Labs to recruit 150 physicians that was signed by former Progressive Conservative health minister Audrey Gordon in 2023 resulted in the hiring of two physicians, each from the United Kingdom.

That contract expired on July 24 and will not be extended.

“This was not a good deal for the province of Manitoba and, yeah, we’re not going to be renewing it,” Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesday at an unrelated news conference. “We were looking at the clock waiting for this thing to expire.”

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