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At least 15,474 Canadians died in 2023-24 alone before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. The true number is likely double.. ... The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data ... Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba. ... The government health bodies that did respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests represent 62 per cent of the population. “If the findings from the provinces that did give us data are extrapolated across provinces that didn’t, the total rises to closer to...

Sickening! Deep State Inspector General—This One Trying to Screw Veterans Democrats trying to kill successful VA healthcare...what would they do with yours? We all remember the Obama years when veterans were dying while waiting for healthcare at VA hospitals. Some lived so far away from treatment centers it would take them hours to get there and back. Bogus waiting lists were being presented while the real ones were buried in some bureaucrat’s desk drawer. The solution was a program Veteran’s Choice where disabled veterans were “allowed’ to seek treatment close to home. If they lived forty miles from a treatment...

And they’ve been waiting a long time, too. The Associated Press reports on an internal audit from more than 700 VA facilities shows that 57,000 veterans have waited 90 or more days for their initial medical appointment, let alone for any advanced care that might be needed. Another 64,000 have been enrolled in the VA health-care system for more than ten years without ever getting to see a doctor: The Veterans Affairs Department says more than 57,000 patients are still waiting for initial medical appointments at VA hospitals and clinics 90 days or more after requesting them. An additional...

Almost half a million NHS patients are waiting more than a year for hospital treatment, official figures showed yesterday. One person in eight who is admitted to hospital for a non-emergency procedure has to wait more than 52 weeks between being referred by a GP and being treated. There are also large variations in waiting times across the country. The figures were revealed yesterday as Andy Burnham, the health minister, claimed that the Government was on track to deliver on its "historic" promise effectively to abolish hospital waiting lists by the end of next year. Previous waiting list figures have...

The nation's organ-transplant network is preparing a major change in how it rations scarce kidneys that would favor young patients over old in an effort to wring more life out of donated organs. Today, a donated kidney generally goes to the person who has been waiting longest in the region in which it becomes available, with exceptions made for certain medical factors. A kidney from a 25-year-old donor could be transplanted into a 75-year-old, who is likely to die years before the kidney would have stopped working. The new policy is being developed by the United Network for Organ Sharing,...

The common assumption in the MSM is that there was a waiting list for pilots in the Texas Air National Guard when President Bush joined. I have always thought that was an ignorant assumption, since the qualifications to become a pilot are much more stringent than the qualifications to simply enlist in the military. This morning I saw an interview where those evil bastards at Fox News actually dared to question that assumption by asking the question of someone who was actually in a position to know - Col. Earl Lively (Ret), the former Director of Operations for the Texas...

28 May 2003 19:47:19 GMTCORRECTED-FEATURE-Oregon debates kidney transplant for death row In May 27 UMATILLA, Ore., story headline "FEATURE-Oregon debates kidney transplant for death row inmate," please read in second paragraph Two Rivers Correctional Institution instead of Umatilla State Prison. In paragraph seven, please read Clatsop County instead of Clackamas County. (Corrects name of prison and county.) A corrected story follows. By Lee Douglas UMATILLA, Ore., May 27 (Reuters) - Horacio Alberto Reyes-Camarena, a convicted murderer with failing kidneys, is presenting Oregon officials with a tough choice -- how best to keep him alive until they can execute him....