A Manitoba mother wants the province to train school staff so they can help diabetic students get their insulin treatments, a responsibility she says currently rests with parents who have to miss work or, in her case, quit to help with their children's treatment.

"It's hard to choose health care over food on your table," Stephanie Biegun told reporters at the legislature on Tuesday. "Having to quit my job to give my son health care in school was not right."

Biegun's son, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in March, has to receive an insuli n dose before meals.

He uses an insulin pump, a wearable medical device that supplies a continuous flow of insulin. But it requires adjustment before a meal, and Biegun said that for months, she had to step away from work, sometimes driving fo

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