Woodbridge, Ont. woman Cassandra Di Maria was diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and has undergone 17 rounds of chemotherapy since then.
She said in December she received a notice saying the surgery was being postponed to January, and then later was told that date was cancelled too. "I'm frustrated because I’m concerned about growth during the period I have been off chemo," she said. "The chances are very high of the cancer spreading further. I’m kind of stuck with what to do, unfortunately."
When asked about Di Maria's situation, a Ministry of Health spokesperson said "we know this difficult decision can be distressing for people requiring hospital care."
ThanksToTheUnvaccinated
Who’s the brain deciding right now it’s more important to treat Covid patients than a stage 4 colon cancer patient.
2 years and billions of dollars spent and still no more hospital beds or staff then we started with. Absolutely disgraceful.
I hope you'll be ok. Best wishes. Unfortunately our healthcare sux. 🤞🤞
FIT HER IN !!!! fordnation
Unbelievable 😔
It has absolutely nothing to do with covid patients vax or unvax it has to do with piss poor healthcare and healthcare funding how do we go down 1000 ICU beds during our situation
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Know of plenty of cases like this but many health care workers off. Back logged
That's too bad she couldn't of done her surgery first. I had my surgery for cancer in the 1st lockdown. Followed by only 6 rounds of Chemo.
utter FOOLISHNESS, as you can be sure that the Oncologist who would be doing her surgery is NOT in the ER or ICU treating covid patients. There is NO reason to postpone ANY surgery under the guise of 'freeing up beds'. THIS is the POLITICS.... hence, theatre
This country had 149K hospital beds in 1970, in 2019 they had 95K. What are our governments Federal and Provincial doing. Are they trying to turn us into a US style for profit. Today we have 54K less beds and a Federal government bringing in 400K people. Does this make sense.
Well as per erinotoole we need to accommodate his anti-vaxers..... they are more important!
I would send the people that aren't vaccinated home that have covid and free up those beds for people like her that need them.
Outrageous.
you can thank the unvaxed idiots for that - they should treat the unvaxed after her not before
Socialized healthcare has to go.
DarrenDreger Why can’t they set aside one hospital just for priority cases like this, no Covid patients allowed in that hospital.
To be honest we are going to see law suits about these postponements. We should have at least one fully operational hosptial that is NON covid. So no Covid patients and critical care nurses are there. We don’t really need ICU nurses looking after the majority of Covid patients
Outrageous covid19, cancer, cardiac patients should all have equal access to treatment yes covid19 patients need immediate oxygen to survive but cancer/cardiac patients who are on hold for treatment risk dying because of delays why continue to put cancer patients etc on hold
…. You should not be taking space in the hospital that other patients need
It is time to kick unvaccinated Covid patients out of the hospital so that a stage 4 cancer patient gets the treatment needed. I lost my father to stage 4 cancer time is of the essence for this lady. Life is choices choosing to not take the life saving vaccines means you ….
This is happening in Ontario because even with world-class epidemiologists, vaccine and infection control experts celliottability and fordnation organized Ontario Health as a mega agency run by people mostly with no medical knowledge or experience with pandemics. ONThealth
This should definitely be one of urgent surgeries. I mean come on.
This is Fu€Ked
This Lady has to die for the selfish un-vax who get sick because of their ignorance. All because our constitution says an individual has the right to choose what goes into their body. Politicians must change this mistake immediately. This wasn't expected when rights were drafted
OMG, take out the unvaccinated and schedule the operation
You have the government and the anti-vaxxers to thank for this.
Come idiots find one hospital that can do this. You telling me they cannot make room for someone who may die
This goes beyond Covid, being vaxxed or not vaxxed. Our government has failed, our healthcare system is crumbling & my cousins life is on the line. Her life saving surgery has been deemed “non urgent” this is beyond me! Her life is on the line. 💔💔
It is incredible the amount of stupidity in this country. I mean it’s either that or ignorance not sure what it is…. The amount of people blaming the unvaxxed for this is appalling… have you been reading the numbers
Oh my god, I hope this is sorted out fast. That poor lady.
There NEEDS to be a system of priorities in cases such as this. Doug Ford and his cabinet will have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS over all this.
If she has stage IV colon cancer there is no life saving surgery.
You have to love Canada where you pay into a system that won’t help you. No surprise there.
That’s so sad to hear her life is as important as the COVID victims something is just going wrong!!
To the People immediately blaming unvaxxed citizens.. stop putting your guilt onto 10% of the population.. instead, blame the hospitals, policy makers, and authorities for continuing this dangerous and obviously flawed route we have been on for TWO YEARS.. FFS
disaster !!!
That's disgusting ....so grateful my mom got hers in just days before that decision was made though I don't think it's a decision that should have ever been made how do u tell a person ur jist leaving them to die basically because a person with a virus is more important
and that is why everyone should have been vaccinated!!!!
This is simply appalling!
That s unfair...
Yeah, just blame the unvaccinated, because they caused all of this. Open your eyes.
This is disgusting and is happening all over. They say they do not want to restrict service and hospital access to the non-vaccinated but they sure don’t mind doing exactly that to others in need do they! The same all across Canada by the looks of it.
That is what THEY planned because liberals sorry communist think their are too many people so as billmaher stated 'What ever gets the freeway moving.' covid1984 THEYLIVE wesleep
Just in time our Cnd media does Trudeau’s good work and ramps up the unvaxxxed are evil narrative. Your propaganda is scary and it would be nice if people had a tiny bit of intelligence and see this but according to the few comments that aren’t bots this isn’t the case. Scary.
Fly her to BC and have her meet with whatever hospital team got Premier Horgan through the line so quickly.
Just not right.
This is outrageous.
People need to start some kind of petition against this ! Absolutely disgusting of the medical community ! It is your duty to take care of people in need like this !
This is so very wrong.
The unvaccinated should be behind her in the line up for medical services.
This is heart breaking. This person deserves her surgery. What is wrong with Ontario Health. Ontario needs to look after these people before unvaxx COVID ones. Shy should a unvaxx COVID person have priority? Her life means more. So so sad 😞
Those who decide to remain unvaccinated and end up sick in the hospital should be put on the wait list. It isn't right that they take priority over the seriously ill and serious surgical procedures. Those unvaccinated chose their fate...let them live with it now.
I'd be starting a go fund me page to get healthcare in another country and bring international attention to the systemically poor Canadian system really is.
Omg, you do know that the vaxxed are more infected than unvaxxed right. Open your damn eyes and look at the numbers. This once again is the media and gov making up fake news to start shit. If you want to blame anyone it's you all vaxxed mofos. You are the only ones in groups !!!
Where is the humen rights . I' m sure if this happend in another country trudeau and freeland will go on all media to attack this .Canada has double scale for humen rights
That is in humane and the consequence is on the hospital
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Are we going to completely ignore the fact that Ontario has been practicing hallway medicine in hospitals for over 8 years because previous governments have cut beds over and over again. 2016
I don't understand why they don't set up covid hospitals and non covid hospitals...
We should immediately stop the vaccinated from accessing the hospitals ! I backup my words with this official data:
Unvaccinated COVID patients are overwhelming ICUs This is the story of one Toronto hospital: 70% in ICU are not vaccinated A similar situation in most hospitals
Has Ford asked the military for help yet? Or is Moore saying nah, we don’t need any help because our new way of looking at hospital / Covid data will flatten the curve soon enough? This situation should be the very last resort so if we’re there, what are they doing about it?
Roll the unvaccinated into the parking lot. I mean it’s just a flu for sheep anyways right.
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I am disappointed of you guys. People who support discrimination and don't accept personal choices, are bad people and are not nice. World Wide governments discriminate a minority and you support it. Canadians are famous for being nice but I believe it was always FAKE!
Is this so the hospital can save some moron who didn’t get vaccinated.
Heartbreaking madness, put a few unvaxxed COVID patients out in a parking lot for a while so people like this can get their life saving surgery!
This is outrageous! Surely her case is a priority.
This is so wrong 🤬🤬🤬
So sorry
Utterly unacceptable. Disgustingly unacceptable in fact.
Anti vaxxers killing others...
queerthoughts Similarly, I can't spinal surgery. I'll be in a wheelchair within a year...
This is so wrong. 😡😡😡🙏🙏to her that she gets her required Heathcare now.
That is absolutely disgusting.
That’s insane and it should not be!
This is so ridiculous!!! How can any doctor allow this to happen…
Trudeau only cares about everyone complying with him. As long as this virus is around, which he's just thriving over, nobody else matters...he's a wannabe Hilter...we have to stop him.
Stop blaming and attacking the unvaccinated. The healthcare system was in big trouble long before covid, stop blaming the unvaxxed.
Well maybe we should get back to eating proper meals and not skip the dishes and all that shit so our bodies actually get the proper nutrients we need to build our immune systems, get out in the sun and get some exercise like we've done throughout history
What bull!!! 💔💔
This is disgusting. We pay enough damn taxes that this should never ever happen in Canada. Hospital funding has been a major issue long before Covid and if our crappy gov't had done something about it years ago this would not be a reality.
Absolutely wrong in every way ... she needs that surgery to get that damn cancer out of her. So sad it has come down to this picking and choosing . Health system failing people .... .
Aren't these the surgeries that they are making exceptions for? Thought urgent, emergent surgeries and life-saving cancer surgeries were still going ahead?
Here go the vaxxed vs unvaxxed debates when ppl really gave no idea, do no basic research on their own and only take the one sided view the news feeds them. Her situation is unfortunate but you're blaming the wrong ppl
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We should be ashamed for letting vulnerable fellow Canadians like Cassandra down!💔 This stupid vax-only groupthink & regulatory capture we've permitted is reprehensible! Start prophylactic & early treatment using supplements & safe, effective repurposed pharmaceuticals NOW!!!
the supply of monoclonal antibody drugs are being actively restricted by corrupt politicians to help vax companies move more vaccine sales. those people are much more to blame than the unvaxed. and suppression of other effective covid treatments as well
and another point... Our Politicians got their surgeries on time... why not their treatments got declined or postponed!!! this is a bullshit system... they got treatments on public money... is this Canada? i thought this happens only in 3rd World/corrupt Countries... holy crap
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Ye_Za_2019 Many long-scheduled surgeries postponed this year since they are short of... You will be told to go to US for a fast treatment, or wait years for a 'cheap' alternative. Like any other left policy, i believe it will benefit you just if you are among lower group of soci
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COVID is used as an excuse for and in every situation... our whole system is collapsing... no wonder in a year or two... we gonna face more complcation with our Health Services and social assistance... no new Hospitals coming up... if any it takes years and years to build those..
Surely there is a hospital that could do her surgery?
So horrible and I am sorry our system sucks so much! This should NEVER happen in Canada. What the hell?
See the problem is not with Covid. It's with out government miss spending funds and not investing in our health care. But they want to direct your attention to a false fear
But lets just talk about vaccines. Really 30 year old woman life threatening situation and your denying her health care really.. you would move mountains if it was any one of your daughters ( for all the beautiful messed up politicians we have) i see how money talks ur all DIRTY
This is sad news for people's lives who depend on surgery. She should not have to suffer. This surgery could save her life
CTVNationalNews Two years ago the government should've built pandemic hospitals. It's a no brainer. The Chinese did that in 2020. What is wrong with the leadership in this country
Horrible
Against the law!
I tried to write several tweets but deleted them as I don’t want to be an asshole. Maybe I should be an asshole. This is just so wrong. I know people who won’t vaccinate. No respect for them anymore.
she is just collateral damage, they really do not care about the health and well being of Canadians. Justin's vaxxed speech informed us of their position... a few deaths will strengthen the battle cry against the un-jabbed
My question is who tf is makin these judgement calls? Can we still get her the help she needs now somewhere else !
This is criminal. If this keeps up and the wrong family is affected like this, a loved one is going to act out violently. Mark my words. This has to change, and soon...
No. This is not okay
hugsaroundottawa - TAKE BACK CANADA
And the government really wants the well being of the population! Let’s vaccinate it is for your own good!
This is bull shit give her her surgery. There is no reason to close a surgical ward quarantine her 15 day then do procedure stop messing with people's lives.Enough is enough force the Dr to do this like seriously. brutal behavior perpetrated by the very people payed to help
This is sad but was happening before covid
There are 3x as many vaccinated covid patients in the hospitals in Ontario as unvaccinated. We also do not know what % of unvaccinated who would still be in hospital even if vaccinated. Do not blame postponed surgeries on unvaccinated people.
This is absolutely reprehensible. My heart absolutely breaks for this family.
Total BD bump a Covid patient.
So...when a definitive date is not given, it does not mean never or a long wait time. Emergency procedures and cancer care has never been stopped.
This is aweful and outrageous. This woman could have a long life ahead of her. This isn’t okay!!!
This is just criminal...
Due to the unvaccinated
See! People! Find Christ and repent of your sins! You are not going to live forever! This fake flu pandemic is an embarrassment and will go down in history as the biggest nothing-burger!!
Why should she suffer cause of some boneheads who took this pandemic and vaccine nothing more than a joke and now are hospitalized leaving her with no choice but to wait and, God forbid, die.
These patients should be prioritized over unvaccinated patients 🤷🏼♂️
You can thank and blame China for that. That country is a detriment to the 🌎 fuckchina
This is a healthcare issue. So we have the beds but we don’t have the staff maybe hospital admin should stop bullying staff who are quitting left right and centre
Our acute hospital has always had 110-130 ALC patients waiting on a nursing home...wheres the nursing homes so people can have surgery!
To save the lives of what are very likely to be unvaccinated 😞. I’m not pro or anti vaccine. I’m pro life and this isn’t fair
What a disgrace. Essential life saving surgery should be priority wtf. who is making these decisions
Ya keep helping the unvaccinated and let people with cancer die! People are soooo selfish! GET VACCINATED!
you can't tell me the surgeons are reassigned to covid patients.
Logic dictates she should be given the resources required to save her life, instead of some sociopathic moron who refused to get vaccinated.
Pitting one another against each other. Typical media fashion. They want vaxxed and unvaxxed fighting against each other when that's not even the real issue here. Just get her a bed and give her the surgery. Kick someone who don't need it as much.
Why should unvaccinated Covid patience be priority over her I am sorry but that is not right
Horrible. I feel so bad for her. fordnation please do something to help !
70% in ICU are unvaccinated and she is denied a life saving operation. Disgusting
DarrenDreger Stage 4. Surgery will not make a difference. I am sad for her and sad that this has become weaponized. This will not help at all
This makes me Furious!
Who is making this decision
OMG this is not right!
Poor women
So, are the oncologist,and surgeons just on vacation all this time? No reason for life saving surgery to be postponed! Pandemic or not!
Then hire back staff
State 4 is an urgent surgery. What the hell!!!She should not have to wait because people didn’t want a vaccine and are now taking up all the healthcare resources! Stay home unvaccinated it’s not real remember!!! Cancer is real!
I can’t read this it’s so heartbreaking. What happened to Canada? How can stage 4 cancer surgery be postponed I hope she does all she can to survive, even if it means travelling to another country for the cancer surgery (set up Go Fund Me if need be). This is unacceptable.
Could be to do with the fact that medical staff is being let go because they refuse to take the experimental vax.
Vaccinated or unvaccinated is not the issue. COVID is spreading. Resources are thin. Hospital admissions are up and nurses and doctors are being redeployed from their normal duties to COVID. We are in a pandemic. Nothing is normal!
fordnation how is this ok
Thanks so cannot be good
That is not right!
This is unacceptable. This is not the Ontario I grew up in. This is not the Canada I love.
Reading this story, I wondering how we can be considered a first world country anymore.
DarrenDreger Never thought I’d see this- the state decides who lives and who dies. We can not accept this.
TaxTheUnvaxxed 🦠🐽universal healthcare is no longer universal when a minority of unvaxxed fill the majority of hospital beds and cancel life saving surgeries for everyone else. antivaxxers KILL.
Tell us how much we love our publicly funded health care?
This is definitely urgent surgery! And this is why everyone needs to be vaccinated. So hospitals aren’t stuck dealing with only COVID patients and can do other important surgeries. I feel so bad for her and her family 💕 I really hope she’s able to get this procedure.
She is given a death sentence because someone is in hospital with a virus that has at .004 % chance of killing them . Well done Trudeau .
THANK YOU JASON KENNEY!!
This is outrageous! Tax every single anti-vaccination person up the Wazo and then some! And then have them personally apologize to this young lady’s family, and the young lady herself provide is she still here. God Bless TheTorontoSun CityNewsTO CBCToronto acoyne
If this is true Canada has a serious health care problem that needs to addressed. Now is the time to have serious conversations for private health. Why are we depending on one system that is ran by the government that is clearly failing.
There is actually no excuse for any of this. This is completely mismanagement of running hospitals. Not 1 hospital in Ontario had be used for such surgeries are you fkin kidding me. Some people need to be fired
They chose to be at risk. She didn't.
DarrenDreger The idiots who think prioritizing Covid patients, vaccinated or not, need to be slapped. This is beyond ridiculous.
Time to sue those hospitals. This is complete negligence.
This is urgent, she needs her surgery! I hope the doctors and hospitals will do the right thing and give her the care she needs now. This is ridiculous!
Holding her in my heart. This is so unfair. :(
fordnation, celliottability allow this lady her urgent surgery!! It’s outrageous that it’s not considered urgent.
Cities should have designated 1 hospital entirely for Covid patients and the other ones carry on with surgeries and other treatment. If a Covid case is discovered it gets shipped out.
This surgery must go on. Come on !
You virus zealots still believe you're the good guys?
Most ICU beds in hospitals are full of Fully Vaccinated people.!!! 80 % of ICU beds are Fully Vaccinated with Covid-19 virus or Reaction Side Effects to the Covid-19 vaccine
Welcome to the third world where this happens every day
This postponing of seriously needed surgeries is so wrong 😡
Why are Drs making these decisions? Why has a dedicated covid clinic set up just like vaccination clinics. With the money spent on shots, a special facility could be set up to treat those with the virus. Most are sent home.
DarrenDreger Let’s get her to Buffalo, NY for the surgery. She’s got a wedding to plan!
So sad how many surgeries have been cancelled all across Canada
Weird how many antivaxxers are in the comments getting angry about this. Like how in the blue fuck do you not realize that its your fault? Lets say they opened up surgeries... theyd still be short staffed, theyd still be swamped with COVID. You are prolonging this you fools.
Insanity....these are not 'elective' surgeries!!
DarrenDreger how the actual fuck is saving a life not being given top priority?
I had a couple Heart surgeries just before Covid era n shudders at the thought any 1 of them could’ve been postponed if it was now (so the unvaccinated sick could get priority care.) Even now Quebec talks about health tax for the selfish unvaccinated, Ontario jumps up to say, NO!
DarrenDreger Remember this when the Democrats want to shove socialized medicine down your throat.
SOBs causing this delay!! And I am not talking about politicians!!
That's F'D Up!
DarrenDreger Perhaps the government is using the pandemic as an excuse to not treat her. The compassion of socialism.
CTVNationalNews Her and many other cancer patients. It’s terrible. Hopefully when they start surgeries again some are 30% she’ll be on that urgent list
DarrenDreger Canada is an embarrassment the way they are handling this. Don’t know how you guys deal with it to be honest.
This shit has to STOP! ONThealth
How is this happening? This is unacceptable and just overall sad. I feel for this young woman and her family and friends.
Somebody at the hospital should be fired immediately. This surgery needs to be done. I expect celliottability and fordnation will weigh in. We’re leaving this woman to die while antivaxxers fill up our hospitals. Unconscionable.
Send her up North. It’s not as bad here!
Imagine if this was the Godfather's wife. I am sure he would find an expedient solution for the unvaccinated.
Ridiculous
Oh that is bullshit. Voluntary unvaccinated sick with covid are a lesser priority. Enough is enough.
That crazy
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This is by far one of the most insane failures by the government during this pandemic.
You could blame the unvaxxed if you think our political leaders all have made the perfect decisions since covid started and all decisions followed doctors orders.
Terrible 😢
Insanity.
Urgent or essential procedures for non-COVID patients should not be delayed in order to meet the medical needs of unvaccinated COVID patients. Their choice to ignore medical advice should not have consequences for others who followed that advice but who have other medical needs.
She’s suffering from Cancer and gross incompetence. How do they call this elective? My torn knee is elective, we are talking about a life here.
Unacceptable!! Shame on you Canada
The unvaccinated strike again. Well done…
Unbelievable!!
This is why anti-vaxxers need to be punished.
Thanks to the army of politician and bureacrats who are paid +150k per year to give us this result
How the hell do the people who make these decisions even sleep at night!
good covid patients takes precedents.
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