The new 10-storey building will include approximately 240 new private patient rooms. Credit: Martha Dominguez de Gouveia on Unsplash.

Canada’s Manitoba government is spending C$1.5bn ($1.126bn) to rebuild adult bed towers of Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Winnipeg and expand the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Avenue campus.

The six-year project will allow HSC Winnipeg to offer more specialised healthcare services to the people in the province.

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It will replace the existing facilities and add a 10-storey building along Sherbrook Street, between the HSC Children’s Hospital and the centre’s rehabilitation and respiratory facility.

The new building will include nearly 240 new private patient rooms, along with more space for complex procedural and diagnostic imaging services.

It will also expand the adult emergency department as well as the associated clinic spaces, to support patient flow and treatment.

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The building will also include space to expand the critical care units in the future, to address the clinical capacity requirements.

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It will also allow to use the general hospital acute rooms as private rooms.

Work on the project is scheduled commence immediately, with some programmes being moved to a temporary location at the Manitoba Clinic building.

This shift is possible after the building was purchased by the HSC Foundation.

Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson said: “Our government is proud to announce this historic investment to heal our health-care system.

“This C$1.5bn project will rebuild the core of what today is HSC Winnipeg. HSC is Manitoba’s hospital, home to specialised services that Manitoba families rely on.

“We are also making a significant investment in the education of our province’s future health-care providers–helping address the health-care staffing needs of tomorrow.”