In the first 18 months of the pandemic, only 30 per cent of Saskatchewan people got knee replacement surgeries within the national benchmark time frame of six months, according to the latest report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.From April 2020 to September 2021, 30 per cent of Saskatchewan people got knee surgery within…
New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information details the widespread impact of the pandemic on health care in Alberta and across Canada between March 2020 and June 2021.Thousands of surgeries were cancelled in Alberta each month as the pandemic forced hospitals to redirect resources to COVID-19 patients, a newly-released data shows. (MAD.vertise/Shutterstock)Alberta hospitals…
Alberta is cutting back scheduled surgeries in its two major cities and the northern part of the province to make room for a possible influx of COVID-19 hospitalizations.Health-care workers tend to an COVID-19 patient in the ICU of the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary on Nov. 14, 2020. A field hospital has been set up…