This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.The government did release a “framework” for the surgical restart back in May. It had two main components, neither of which benefited those in the queue. It required hospitals to keep available 10 per cent of their acute bed capacity in case of a second wave of the virus and to maintain a 30-day supply of medical supplies.
How big is the backlog now? And have hospitals made any progress in reducing it? That seems like questions for which someone should have a ready answer. Ontario Health, which is supposed to manage such things says “it is difficult to determine” how many patients are waiting for surgeries, in total, or the number delayed by the pandemic.
B.C..’s plan involved exactly the steps a rational person might expect. The government hired more surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists to cut the backlog. It expanded operating room hours and relied on private clinics for the procedures they are capable of handling. Even before the pandemic, wait times for surgery in Ontario were unacceptably long. Is it reasonable for Ontarians to wait 208 days for eye surgery, 213 days for orthopaedic surgery, 167 days for pediatric surgery or 158 days for neurosurgery? Those were the numbers last June. All are substantially higher now.
I’ve been waiting 2 years for surgery on my hand!! A family member in MB needed something similar. It was done they next day. I’m going broke replacing things I’ve dropped. Phones, key fobs are expensive. I can’t type on a keyboard. fordnation has zero social society conscience.
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