B.C. catching up on thousands of backlogged surgeries

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Health authorities performed a record 337,560 surgeries in 2021/22 while 88,000 people are still waiting for surgery.

A total of 337,560 scheduled and unscheduled surgeries were completed in fiscal year 2021/22, which Health Minister Adrian Dix says is the highest number of surgeries performed in a single year and 21,284 more surgeries than in 2020.

The province said it has completed 99.8 per cent of the surgeries for patients whose original date was in the first wave of COVID in March 2020, 96.2 per cent of surgeries postponed because of the second and third wave in mid-2021 and 78.9 per cent of surgeries postponed because of the fourth and fifth waves in the fall and winter of 2021 and during last summer’s extreme heat which led to almost 600 heat-related deaths.

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