A B.C. woman fed up with uncertainty about surgical wait times says she spent more than $34,000 to have her hip replaced at a private clinic in Calgary.
WATCH: A Vancouver Island woman, and recipient of the Order of BC, says she was forced to go to Alberta and pay $34,000 for a hip replacement. Aaron McArthur reports.A Vancouver Island woman is speaking out about surgical delays, after travelling to Alberta and paying out of pocket to get a hip replacement.
“In July I went from having to be on opioids from the bone-on-bone pain to I can’t take a step,” she said.Porteous first sought care for her knee and hip pain in 2021, and was referred to a surgeon at RebalanceMD in Saanich that December.She said she was placed on a semi-urgent list for surgery in the spring, and was escalated to a priority position on the wait list over the summer when doctors determined her femoral head had partially collapsed.
“We need to have more for people, because the toll it takes on people’s mental health is massive.”According to health professionals, the issue is not a lack of surgeons or operating room space, but a lack of staffing — especially nursing support.The B.C. government maintains the province has increased orthopedic surgeries provincewide.
While the province touts its progress on the surgical file, RebalanceMD’s CEO said it isn’t putting a dent in wait lists.More than 4,100 people are currently waiting for joint replacement surgeries in the Victoria area alone, he said, up from 3,800 just a few weeks ago.
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