By Dave Baxter  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The province of Manitoba will soon be the first province in Canada to collect race-based data from hospital patients, as it looks to find ways to combat what one Manitoba doctor says are ongoing “racial and ethnic disparities” in the health-care system.   “We know that there are racial and ethnic disparities in access to health care, in the care people receive, and in overall health status,” Dr. Marcia Anderson said in a Thursday media release.   Anderson currently serves in the role of vice-dean of Indigenous health, social justice and anti-racism at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, but since the COVID-19 pandemic first began in Manitoba in 2020, she has also served as the public health lead for the First Nations

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