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Surgery wait list could take 12 to 18 months to work through

from Halifax Today

Surgery wait list could take 12 to 18 months to work through Halifax Today When surgeries ramped up starting on May 25, there were 3,214 Nova Scotians on the wait list for a procedure. Dr. Greg Hirsch, director of surgery at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and the NSHA, says that over the past few weeks 40 per cent of those have been completed and another 12 per cent scheduled. “We’re working back through that backlog and as things have eased off and we’ve opened up we’re trying to get back to 100 or even over 100 per cent of what we were doing in 2019,” he tells NEWS 95.7’s The Todd Veinotte Show. READ MORE

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