Reducing Wait Times for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Procedures

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TORONTO — As part of the Your Health plan, the Ontario government is taking the next step to make it easier and faster for people to connect to publicly-funded surgeries and procedures by adding approximately 60,000 gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy procedures at community surgical and diagnostic centres across the province each year. “When it comes to wait times for surgeries and procedures, the status …

New acute care tower coming to Surrey Memorial Hospital in BC

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Surrey – People in Surrey will have access to enhanced health-care services as plans move ahead for a new acute care tower at Surrey Memorial Hospital. “Surrey’s quickly growing population needs health care to grow with it,” said Premier David Eby. “People need to know health care is accessible, not after a long wait or a long drive to another …