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Jonathon Naylor Editor The release of a financial audit of the business case for the NRHA Medical Clinic has again been delayed. A spokesperson for Manitoba Health, the government department commissioning the report, said the audit is now expected to be finished by the end of this month. The province had initially projected the report would be available by the fall of 2011 and, when that deadline passed, January of 2012. 'We regret the delay, but the process is simply taking longer than anticipated,' a spokesperson for Manitoba Health told The Reminder last week. 'Rather than rush to completion, our main goal is to ensure the audit is completed in a thorough and professional manner.' The province announced in May 2011 it would commission a financial audit to answer questions about the controversial opening of the clinic inside the Flin Flon General Hospital. This followed a lengthy government-ordered review of the NRHA that found it 'difficult to determine' how the new clinic would save as much money as promised. The NRHA, which opened the clinic in February 2011, gave cost savings as one of its justifications, saying it expected to conserve about $260,000 a year.
