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The backlog of health-care services has grown "quite substantially" during the pandemic, but backlogs and wait-lists have been an issue for decades, says one Toronto doctor. ....
Shelley Brownlee, who s been diagnosed with a form of abdomen cancer, has been waiting months to undergo surgery at a hospital in Toronto. Her doctor said he had hoped to proceed with it next month but the Ontario government s pause on all non-urgent surgeries and procedures amid soaring COVID-19 cases means she ll likely have to hang on a bit longer. ....