Manitoba's Progressive Conservative government has 15 per cent left to go in its stated goal for reducing ambulance fees.

Premier Brian Pallister, along with Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen, and a lineup of other MLAs, announced at the Legislature this morning the province has reduced ambulance fees 35 per cent in two years, with an $85 reduction first announced in last month's budget going into effect this past Sunday.

"We continue to make progress to achieve the goal in our first term of reducing ambulance fees by a full 50 per cent," said Pallister.

Tom Farrell, the president of the Manitoba Association of Senior Centres, called the reduction, and the plan to continue in that direction, invaluable.

"There's a significant number of seniors on very fixed, limited incomces. For many of them, the cost of the use of an ambulance was prohibitive. I could tell you stories of people who literally got a hold of a son or daughter... to get them from their home to St. Boniface Hospital or to the hospital in Selkirk," said Farrell at the press conference.

An ambulance ride in Manitoba now costs 340 dollars or a pre-existing base fee -- whichever is lower.