Frustrations grow over new Saskatchewan health care budget [Video]

This week the Saskatchewan 2025-26 budget was released and with it comes a promise of an over $8-billion investment in health care.

It marks a 6.4 per cent increase from last year. But the NDP say the increase doesn’t tell the whole story.

NDP leader Carla Beck said last year, the provincial government allocated $8.022 billion to healthcare. This year, they have budgeted only $8.004 billion—a reduction of $17.1 million

“They’ve cut health care and refused to listen at a time when more and more Saskatchewan people are going without the care that they need,” Beck said at an event Friday.

The province said some of the funding will be used to address capacity and staffing pressures, but health care workers at the NDP conference Friday say this isn’t enough.

“I think we need to have more Saskatchewan students going into health care,” Dr. Adam Ogieglo said. “Focusing on retention …