- Families question premier’s assertion Manitoba ICUs have been ‘relatively stable’ this fall
- Family concerned over non-COVID-19 emergency treatment at St. Boniface Hospital
- Manitoba man’s triple-bypass surgery cancelled hours before taking place
- Winnipeg man needing urgent cardiac bypass surgery still waiting after 4 postponements
- 2 Manitoba cardiac patients sent to Ontario, Quebec hospitals for surgery
- Pandemic backlogs put life at risk, says Winnipeg man waiting for kidney, heart transplants
- Man sent out of province for surgery hopes others aren’t hit with the unexpected costs he faced
- Manitoba man calling for change after heart surgery cancelled last minute
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Manitobans Have Been Impacted by the Surgery & Diagnostic Backlog
Each number represents a story of someone waiting for care, treatment or a diagnosis.
Read some stories below.
Cardiac
Diagnostic
- SYSTEM IS BROKEN’: Woman on two-year wait list despite recommendation to get diagnostic test
- Thousands ‘suffering in silence’ as sleep disorder clinic backlog balloons: Doctors Manitoba
- More Canadians could face late-stage cancer tied to diagnosis delays during COVID pandemic
- MRI and ultrasound waitlists increase as Manitoba touts progress in surgical backlog
Cataract
General
- Manitoba wait times for cataract, knee surgeries among worst nationwide in first 18 months of pandemic: report
- Vexed, perplexed on surgery waiting list
- Patients suffering, dying while waiting for care as Manitoba hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19, doctors say
- With surgeries scrapped, thousands of Manitobans left waiting in pain
- Winnipeg woman postpones her own surgery to advocate for unwell husband
- Winnipegger recalls rushed, overworked staff during surgical hospital stay
- Never-ending wait list 30,000 non-urgent surgeries on hold in Manitoba
- No reopening date for Carman operating room ‘heartbreaking’: surgeon
- It’s just talk’: Patients waiting for surgery take new Manitoba task force to task for lack of timeline
- I can’t do anything’: Winnipeg man pleads for cataract surgery
- Elective procedures in Carman, Brandon postponed to make capacity for possible holiday COVID-19 surge
- Health care in Manitoba: a perpetual struggle
Gynecological
Oncology
Orthopedic & Spinal
- Manitoba woman waiting for hip surgery calls health minister’s thoughts and prayers ‘useless’
- Manitobans facing long delays for hip surgeries see ‘no hope on the horizon’
- Winnipegger considers private hip surgery due to operating room delays in Manitoba
- Day-of-surgery cancellations ‘heartless,’ says Manitoban turned away after 2‑year wait
- Retired firefighter ‘withering away’ while surgery repeatedly cancelled
- With surgery on hold, Manitoba woman fighting pain looks to the U.S. for care
- Retired caregiver asks: how long must I suffer?
- Winnipeg man, 78, fears dying in pain after four years of waiting for spinal surgery
- Manitoba wait times for cataract, knee surgeries among worst nationwide in first 18 months of pandemic: report
Pediatric
Travel for Treatment
- Winnipeg man invoices Manitoba health minister with $14,431 medical bill due to elective surgery backlog
- Manitoba surgery back-log sees couple dish out $16k for earlier appointment in Mexico
- Winnipeg man gets hip surgery done privately, suggests incentive program
- Medical tourism continues to grow, and prosper
- Manitoba Paramedic gets spinal surgery in Germany, avoiding long wait
- You get your life back faster’: Manitobans open wallet for out-of-province hip replacements
- Manitoba couple flies to Mexico to avoid provincial surgery backlog
- Surgeries slated overseas, but province won’t foot bill
- Sick of waiting as Manitoba surgery backlog grows, some seek costly procedures out of province — or country
- Manitoba considering sending patients to Fargo, N.D., amid diagnostic and surgical backlog