Nunavut’s health budget gets big increase for 2015-16 – Nunatsiaq News
March 17, 2015
Health department will increase staff and services, move to stamp out TB
As the Nunavut legislature prepared to adjourn March 17 until May 26, MLAs closed in on the most pressing business of the current sitting: the final approval of Bill 16, which covers the territorial government’s 2015-16 operations and maintenance budget.
And the Nunavut health department remains the largest single recipient of funds, after requesting a budget of $317.4 million to hire more front-line health workers, improve on-the-job safety and service delivery, and battle the continuing outbreaks of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases in the territory.
