Vancouver/CMEDIA: A record for the most surgeries performed in the last fiscal year, British Columbia government reported saying.
With more than 350,000 surgeries delivered from April 2022 to March 2023, B.C. exceeded the record of 337,000 set the year previously, a report from the Health Ministry says
The milestone is proof, said Health Minister Adrian Dix that the government is delivering on its commitment to complete surgeries postponed due to the challnges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather and staffing conditions.
99.9 percent of the nearly 15,000 patients whose scheduled surgeries were postponed in the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, said the ministry have had procedures if they still wanted them and 99.7 percent of people with postponed surgeries in later periods have also had their procedures completed.
The total wait-list size has shrunk nearly five percent compared with the same time frame in 2019-20.
“What is clear is that innovation works,” Dix was reported saying on Thursday and added,
“Finding new methods, approaches and facilities works, individual and collective action works. All these are critical parts of surgical renewal and put simply, surgical renewal works for that reason.”
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