Regina Breast Health Centre to begin accepting patients in April

Alexander Quon · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

In effect to questions from the Opposition NDP in the legislature connected Tuesday, the Saskatchewan authorities announced its caller Breast Health Centre successful Regina volition unfastened successful April — astir a period down schedule.

NDP health professional Vicki Mowat said the state failed connected a committedness to unfastened the new facility astatine Regina Centre Crossing by the extremity of the fiscal year, oregon the extremity of March.

Mowat said it's different of illustration of the province failing to support its promises around health care.

"We've seen them marque these announcements, which tin marque for a bully quality day, but erstwhile it really comes to pursuing done and providing healthcare for the radical of the province, they are failing to present connected that promise," Mowat said.

After questions connected the topic from Mowat and NDP Leader Carla Beck connected Tuesday, Premier Scott Moe revealed that the installation is scheduled to clasp its expansive opening ceremonial connected April 14 and statesman treating patients on April 23.

Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said everything he'd seen astir the bosom wellness centre said it would open successful outpouring 2025.

A quality merchandise accompanying the facility's operation successful June 2024 mentioned that it was expected to unfastened its "doors this fiscal year."

Cockrill defended the authorities by pointing to the fig of radical that volition beryllium helped by the installation erstwhile it is open.

"We expect 1,600 women a twelvemonth to spell done this Regina Breast Health Centre. That is significant," Cockrill said.

He said that during operation the province was capable to get caller abstraction astatine the Regina Centre Crossing, allowing its lymphedema session to determination implicit from the Pasqua Hospital to the caller facility.

The wellness curate said hiring astatine the bosom wellness centre has been completed and that 13 full-time employees volition unit the caller facility.

Cockrill said erstwhile helium toured the centre a fewer weeks agone operation was "pretty overmuch done." The state is presently mounting up instrumentality and IT systems, and starting to bid staff, helium added.

The Opposition said the wellness curate doesn't merit a pat connected the backmost for opening the installation a period down docket portion continuing to nonstop women to Calgary for bosom crab diagnosis procedures.

Saskatchewan precocious extended that programme for different twelvemonth owed to the ongoing backlog.

"We volition stay watchful to spot however this however this opening rolls out," Mowat said.