Analysis of the waiting times for surgery and analysis in the first 18 months of the pandemic show that Manitoba has caught up with almost all provinces in cataract and knee surgeries.
From April 2020 to September 2021, the latest analysis from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) suggests that just over a third of Manitobans on the waiting list for knee replacement surgery, i.e., 38%, are operated within a national reference period of 6 months.
Manitoba lags behind all the provinces in this regard. Saskatchewan is getting worse at 30%, while the national average is 59%. Ontario does better with 71% of patients treated on time.
Manitoba also ranked second to last in waiting times on cataract surgery in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
According to’DITO, 39% of these patients had surgery within the 112-day benchmark, compared with 66% nationwide. This level was 70% before the pandemic at the national level.
It’s better than pre-pandemic in Manitoba, but look at the whole country it’s still lower than most other provinces.supports the Health System Analysis Manager atDITOErin Pichora.
In Alberta, 64% of cataract patients are operated on on time, and 63% in Saskatchewan.
Senior health activist and retired nurse Trish Rawsthorne finds it difficult to understand the waiting times for cataract surgery in Manitoba, due to similar aging populations in several other provinces.
In a few years, I didn’t know where we were going, because it was an age -related situation. We can never catch uphe says.
These findings, Rawsthorne said, underscore the need to increase the number of procedures in the province to reduce the backlog.
Otherwise, we will go to a wall, and we will just wait for other complications to appear, so that they can be more serious and people can be hospitalized.he continued.
Ms Rawsthorne pointed out that the data fromDITO is based on people on the waiting list and does not take into account people in need of intervention, but does not count as such in official registers.
Positive for radiotherapy treatments
Most urgent procedures, such as radiation therapy for cancer and repair of a broken hip, are completed within the recommended time frame.
Between April and September 2021, 85% of hip fracture repairs were completed within the recommended 48-hour timeframe according to national standards and 97% of radiotherapy treatments were completed within 4 week deadlinewrites ofDITO.
In Manitoba, 89% of hip fractures are within the prescribed period, while 100% of radiation therapy treatments are in the same conditions.
With information from Bryce Hoye
Source: Radio-Canada
