Why is the MAHCP doing this?

We believe that Manitobans deserve better. Every MAHCP member chose their occupation out of a desire to help others regain or maintain good health, and every day lengthy wait times for diagnostic tests and treatments threaten the very lives of Manitobans. With the healthcare system in critical condition, frustrated professionals leave the province and healthcare consumers fail to thrive.

Manitobans deserve a system that

• encourages our most talented health care professionals to stay in Manitoba,
• attracts top talent from outside the province,
• makes the best use of the resources we have now
  

The Union

The MAHCP is a union, a governing body that speaks on behalf of and for the good of its 3400 members within the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, the South Eastman Regional Health Authority, the Burntwood Health Authority, the Brandon Regional Health Authority and the Nor-Man Regional Health Authority. It negotiates with the Province’s health care authorities to secure appropriate wages, benefits and working conditions for its members and it provides a forum within which members can communicate with each other and their employers.

Now, for the first time, the MAHCP has asked itself: Who speaks for the health care consumer? The answer, the MAHCP has found, is that no one speaks for the health care consumer. Is it any wonder then that Manitobans have fallen victim to a health care crisis of monumental proportions with no solution in site? The MAHCP has, for this reason, chosen to lend its powerful voice to all Manitobans in a demonstration of solidarity critical to securing a responsive and responsible health care system for every man, woman and child in Manitoba.

Leadership

The men and women who retain membership in the MAHCP are personally and professionally predisposed to help their fellow man. MAHCP members are Manitoba residents, neighbours and parents, as vulnerable to the shortcomings of our health care system as anyone … perhaps more. Their professional lives force them to become intimate with the best and the worst of the system. They have shared the anxiety and pain experienced by their patients and watched, first hand, the degenerative effects of waiting. Unlike their patients, however, MAHCP members possess the insights and the organization to Eliminate the Wait. They have chosen to exercise that prerogative.

Read a message from MAHCP
President Wendy Despins.