Spokesman for switched-at-birth families says they’ll meet with health minister
WINNIPEG — Health Minister Jane Philpott will meet Monday with families involved in two cases where babies were switched at birth at a northern Manitoba hospital in the 1970s, a spokesman for the families says.
Former Manitoba aboriginal affairs minister Eric Robinson, who has worked with the men and their families, said Philpott has agreed to meet with the men as well as their parents and siblings, for three to four hours at a yet-to-be determined location in Winnipeg.
Robinson has called for the meeting with Philpott for months and said he believes the men and their families will be seeking a comprehensive counselling program.
“This is an opportunity for the minister to hear a first-hand account some of the issues that they’re having to deal with — the pain and the anguish,” Robinson said in an interview on Saturday.