The Manitoba government is providing more than $2 million to increase security efforts at the province's largest hospital, including funding police officers to man the facility 24 hours a day.

Two police officers will be deployed to the emergency department at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg due to rising safety concerns in and around the hospital.

"There's important work that's happening to make sure that we're involving law enforcement in the security solution at the (Health Sciences Centre)," Justice Minister Matt Wiebe told reporters on Tuesday.

"We're in discussions with (Winnipeg police) to make sure that they've got the right level of resources, and we're confident we've got that."

The province is providing $2.3 million for the fiscal year to go toward funding the officer

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