There is a backlog of hundreds of thousands of surgical procedures, and it will take at least $1.3 billion in additional funding to get wait times back to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian Medical Association says.
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Good morning. It’s James Keller in Calgary.
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on Alberta’s health-care system, first in the spring when hospitals cancelled a wide range of procedures as they braced for a coming wave of infections, and then in the fall and winter when a sharp increase in infections was followed by record-breaking hospitalizations.
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Cheryl Sword can feel them, the cysts on her ovaries. The two lumps are 12 centimetres in diameter and growing. The one on her left ovary feels larger than its counterpart on the right.
“It feels like a Jello-y grapefuit,” said Ms. Sword, a 35-year-old Alberta resident with Crohn’s disease and a family history of cancer.