Delayed Surgeries

• ‘The pain hurts’: Five-year-old B.C. girl’s ‘non-urgent’ surgery delayed by pandemic

  Five-year-old Jocelyn Ellison has a genetic deformity that causes constant urinary tract infections. Her doctors hoped that surgery would stop the infections.

  Health

  Jan 10, 2022
  
• Alberta says surgery backlog has stabilized at 81,600 following latest COVID-19 wave

  Jason Copping says the wait list stood at 68,000 cases before the pandemic began and has been rising and falling as waves of COVID-19 have swept through.

  Health

  Dec 9, 2021
  
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• Hundreds of non-emergency surgeries in Edmonton postponed due to COVID-19

  According to Alberta Health Services, roughly 30 per cent of scheduled, non-emergency surgeries and some ambulatory care clinic visits have been postponed.

  Canada

  Nov 20, 2020