Health region recruits eight new rural doctors
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This article was published 29/08/2025 (188 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Prairie Mountain Health has recruited eight new international medical graduates.
The newly recruited doctors include three for Swan River, two for Roblin and one each for Neepawa, Souris and Virden.
The full-time physicians have been recruited through the provincial Medical Licensure Program for International Medical Graduates, which assists foreign-trained doctors to obtain their medical licence to be able to practise as a family physician in Manitoba.
Prairie Mountain Health CEO Treena Slate. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun files)
Six of the new physicians have already started, while the other two are set to start in September. The two that haven’t yet started are in Swan River and Souris.
“It certainly allows our community members to access services closer to home instead of travelling,” Tamara Kemp-Boulet, the physician recruitment and retention co-ordinator for PMH, said Friday.
“It would allow our other departments, such as emergency departments, to be open more hours because we have physician support.”
Souris and Roblin don’t have ERs that are open 24-7.
The program brings international physicians to the hospitals on four-year terms, after which they can stay.
“They have a four-year return of service with us, and they can stay as long as they want,” Kemp-Boulet said. “If after those four years, they want to make their career in the community that they’ve settled in — which is certainly what we would like — they’re welcome to stay as long as they want past the four years.”
The program brings in physicians around the region every fall. In 2024, Deloraine, Grandview, Russell, Ste. Rose and Virden all received physicians. The year before, physicians were placed in Glenboro, Hamiota, Russell, Swan River and Virden, PMH said in a news release Friday.
Prairie Mountain CEO Treena Slate said the physicians were placed based on “communities that require additional sufficient physician resources.”
Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara welcomed the new doctors.
“I want to welcome and thank these new doctors for joining our incredible Manitoba workforce. I wish them well as they begin providing this essential care throughout Prairie Mountain Health,” Asagwara said in the release.
Swan River is receiving doctors Uche Adediji, Toyin Oluwatuyi and Oghenekevwe Ekrebe. Doctors Anahita Yousefiadib and Zoia Khattak are in Roblin. Dr. Louis Eleche is in Neepawa, Dr. Sylvia Oranika in Virden and Dr. Rilwan Azeez will be starting in Souris next month.
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