STARS will be taking over air ambulance services from the province's Lifeflight program, Manitoba Shared Health announced Thursday. The province issued a request for proposals in July of 2018 to privatize its air service's Lifeflight air ambulance and general transport services. Last year, some Lifeflight doctors refused to board the private planes Manitoba has relied on for its air ambulance service. Calls for air ambulance services will continue to go through Shared Health's call centre. Responsibility for the program was transferred from Manitoba Health to Shared Health, the organization that co-ordinates health care in the province, last fall.

Source: CBC News September 11, 2020 00:33 UTC