Health-care workers and seniors are the focus of some of the latest promises in British Columbia’s provincial election campaign.

NDP Leader David Eby says his party would create a new training pathway through Simon Fraser University’s medical school to help qualified international medical graduates already living in B.C. begin practising family medicine.

The NDP is also proposing incentives for health-care workers who agree to serve in rural and underserved communities.

Those measures would include discounted tuition, student-loan forgiveness and assistance with moving expenses.

The B.C. Conservatives are focusing their latest commitments on seniors and long-term care.

Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson says his party would increase the number of long-term-care beds and introduce portable public funding, allowing patients waiting for placement to choose between government and non-government facilities.

The Conservatives are also promising to reverse recent changes that increased the cost of B.C.’s property-tax deferment program for seniors.

Both plans are election commitments ahead of final voting day on Saturday, October 24.