On Monday afternoon, Thompson General Hospital was the latest stop on Premier Wab Kinew’s listening tour on health-care.

Kinew said the intention of the tour is to improve the province’s health care system using the information and suggestions provided by front-line health care workers.

He noted that health care in the north has unique challenges and that the efforts to deliver comparable care to patients here as in other health regions can be taxing to staff.

Hospital staff met with the Premier, along with Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care Minister Uzoma Asagwara and Carla Compton, the premier’s advisor on nursing culture and safety.

To date, stops on the listening tour have included Grace Hospital, St. Boniface Hospital, Selkirk Mental Health Centre, Victoria Hospital, Health Sciences Centre and Brandon Regional Health Centre.