Manitoba may add doctors' clinics to its online booking system

Manitoba has a website called Medinav. People use it to book a doctor's appointment for the same day or the next day. It is for health problems that are not emergencies. It helps people avoid long emergency room waits. Right now, only clinics run by the public health system are on Medinav. Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara says Manitoba is looking at adding clinics run by doctors. She did not say when. More than 91,000 appointments have been booked since it started two years ago. Doctors Manitoba, a doctors' group, supports the idea. It says doctors want to fill open appointments.