Nurses union bemoans lack of health-care progress in Manitoba – Winnipeg [Video]

More than 500 Manitoba nurses are expected to attend a rally at the legislature Wednesday, calling for changes in the province’s health-care system.

Despite a change in provincial government almost two years ago, the Manitoba Nurses Union says its members are still encountering the same broken health-care system shift after shift and that they are feeling disappointed and frustrated with the lack of progress.

President Darlene Jackson told 680 CJOB’s The Start that wait times are up and workplace violence is increasing, turning many nurses away from the profession.

“There’s probably not a shift in the last year that there hasn’t been violence in some facility, or probably all facilities, some type of violence … and that is massive.

“Nurses are leaving because of it. I had one nurse that said to me, ‘I loved my job at the Health Sciences Centre, but I’m not putting my life at risk to go to work.’”