BC Surgeries

• Record number of surgeries performed in B.C. in 2022, pandemic catchup almost done

  Between 2022 and the end of March, staff performed 350,886 surgeries across the province, an increase of four per cent from the same timeframe between 2019 and 2020.

  Health

  May 11, 2023
  
• B.C. hospitals struggle with surgery backlog but leads provinces in progress: report

  'You can't grow a nurse or a doctor overnight, so it is going to take a little bit of time for us to get out of this tough situation,' an official said of B.C.'s surgical backlog.

  Health

  Mar 24, 2023
  
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• B.C. making progress in clearing surgical backlog amid staffing issues

  The week before Christmas, health authorities completed nearly 4,700 surgeries across the province, and the week before that almost 7,500 surgeries were completed.

  Health

  Jan 14, 2023
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• B.C. ramps up surgeries as catchup continues on operations cancelled due to COVID

  Health Minister Adrian Dix says 99.8 per cent of the surgeries postponed in the first wave of COVID-19 have now been completed.

  Health

  May 4, 2022
• ‘Getting pretty desperate’: Waitlist for orthopaedic surgery grows in B.C. as pandemic continues

  There are more than 1,200 patients on the orthopaedic surgical waitlist in Kelowna alone, according to the B.C. Orthopaedic Association.

  Health

  Mar 22, 2022
• More than 500 surgeries postponed in B.C. last week due to COVID-19, minister says

  In December, the province announced that elective surgeries would be delayed, starting in January, as the Omicron variant drove a surge in COVID-19 cases.

  Health

  Jan 11, 2022
• Coronavirus: ‘Surgery renewal is well underway’ says Interior Health

  IHA says the first phase of surgery renewal is focused on patients that need urgent surgeries.

  Canada

  Jun 17, 2020