Uzoma Asagwara
NDP candidate in the Union Station Winnipeg race.
Uzoma can be reached on social media, at [email protected], or by calling 431-277-4637.
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Tories pledge expanded role for pharmacists
19 September 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...patients out of physicians’ offices were not provided, but the expense is expected to be within the existing health-care budget. The NDP’s Uzoma Asagwara panned the Tories’ promise for its lack of details and questioned why changes were not made during the past seven years. “Pharmacists have been...
Tories turn page to health care for first time in campaign
18 September 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...is the same government that has cut nearly $40 million from health-care recruitment and retention over the past several years,” NDP health critic Uzoma Asagwara said moments after the Tory event at one just metres away. “They cut the rural physician retention fund, cut and underspent the general physician...
Les progressistes-conservateurs promettent de recruter plus de travailleurs de la santé | Élections au Manitoba 2023
18 September 2023
Ici Radio Canada / CBC Francais - ...gouvernait de façon habituelle sont révolus. Nous avions les pires temps d'attente au Canada , a déclaré M. Klein. Ouvrir en mode plein écran Uzoma Asagwara affirme que ses adversaires progressistes-conservateurs ont eu deux mandats pour améliorer les soins de santé. Photo : Radio-Canada / Travis Golby...
PCs jump into election health-care fray with promise to recruit more workers
18 September 2023
CBC Manitoba - ...an NDP plan. Back will be the days of a typical governing NDP, when we had the worst wait times in Canada," Klein said. NDP Union Station candidate Uzoma Asagwara, centre, says the PCs had two terms to improve health care. (Travis Golby/CBC) Minutes later at the same park, NDP Union Station candidate Uzoma...
These are the candidates in your area
13 September 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...(Lib.); Heather Stefanson (PC) • Tyndall Park — Cindy Lamoureux (Lib.); Kelly Legaspi (NDP); Christopher Santos (PC) • Union Station — Uzoma Asagwara (NDP); Aaron Croning (PC); Iqra Tariq (Lib.) • Waverley — Manjit Kaur Gill (Green); Uche Nwankwo (Lib.); David Pankratz (NDP); Jon Reyes (PC) ...
Des employés manitobains d’Extendicare veulent de meilleures conditions de travail
11 September 2023
Ici Radio Canada / CBC Francais - ...rappelé son soutien aux travailleurs de la province, notamment grâce au passage du chef du parti sur la ligne de piquetage ce lundi. Publicité Uzoma Asagwara, qui se présente pour le NPD dans la circonscription d'Union Station, croit qu’il est important que les travailleurs manitobains et tout...
NDP decry ‘exhausting’ HSC bed occupancy rates
29 August 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...rates at Manitoba’s largest hospital — Health Sciences Centre — have gone from bad to worse in recent months, the NDP says. NDP health critic Uzoma Asagwara said the numbers, contained in a document obtained via an access to information request to Shared Health, show bed occupancy rates in the Winnipeg...
HSC nurses racked up more than 25 years in OT hours over eight months, NDP reveals
23 August 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...Conservative government spent nearly $20 million on nurse overtime during the same time period, from September 2022 to May 2023. NDP health critic Uzoma Asagwara said under a New Democrat government, overtime would be reduced and nurses would have greater work-life balance. RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE...
Nurses union, NDP question cost, limited success of province’s health-care worker recruitment mission to Philippines
15 August 2023
Winnipeg Free Press - ...lack of clarity around how contracts are awarded… the true amount of how much money is being spent… it raises a number of concerns.” –Uzoma Asagwara, NDP health critic Remaining candidates are making their way through the immigration and licensing process, Shared Health said. Previously, the...
Santé : les progressistes-conservateurs n’ont pas dépensé tous les fonds, selon le NPD
15 August 2023
Ici Radio Canada / CBC Francais - ...ministre Heather Stefanson aime faire de grandes promesses parce que c'est une année électorale, mais nous connaissons tous la vérité , a lancé Uzoma Asagwara, porte-parole du NPD en matière de santé, en conférence de presse, lundi. Elle ne va pas jusqu'au bout et elle ne peut pas faire avancer les...