
Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care (Manitoba), MB
Uzoma Asagwara is the Deputy Premier of Manitoba and Minister of Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care in the Kinew NDP government. NDP MLA for Union Station since 2019. A registered psychiatric nurse before politics, Asagwara made history as the first Black and first openly queer person elected to the Manitoba legislature, and is non-binary. Their health file covers emergency-room wait times, the diagnostic and surgical-backlog recovery plan, and personal-care-home staffing standards.