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Manitoba may add doctors' clinics to its online booking system

Manitoba has a website called Medinav. People use it to book a doctor's appointment for the same day or the next day. It is for health problems that are not emergencies. It helps people avoid long emergency room waits. Right now, only clinics run by the public health system are on Medinav. Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara says Manitoba is looking at adding clinics run by doctors. She did not say when. More than 91,000 appointments have been booked since it started two years ago. Doctors Manitoba, a doctors' group, supports the idea. It says doctors want to fill open appointments.

100 wordsSource: CBC News, by Ian Froese

Dauphin hospital offers kidney treatment again after flood

Patients can again get dialysis at the hospital in Dauphin, a town in western Manitoba. Dialysis is a treatment for people whose kidneys do not work well. A machine cleans their blood. A flood damaged the hospital at the end of June. After that, patients had to travel to other towns, such as Roblin, Brandon or Swan River, for dialysis. Now a temporary dialysis unit is open at the hospital. Several kinds of medical tests are back too, such as ultrasound and heart tests. Repair work on the hospital goes on. The province has not said when it will end.

100 wordsSource: CBC News, by Chelsea Kemp

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