Saskatchewan health minister says province expects to resume health-care services for children in coming weeks
Saskatchewan’s health minister says he has cried a lot throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but the story that affected him the most was of an 11-month-old whose surgery and physiotherapy were cancelled due to the overloaded health-care system.
Before the meeting, Premier Scott Moe announced during question period that health-care services that were cancelled during the province’s fourth wave of COVID-19 are to resume soon. “There are babies born every day and babies being diagnosed with high needs, and they’re waiting too,” she said. “That’s why we’re doing it in a staged approach. Because if something happens in two weeks, we may have to adjust.”
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