Category: health care crisis

Emergency Room Wait Times Up Across Canada: Federal Data

December 14, 2022
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Close to 14 million Canadians visited an emergency room between April 2021 and March 2022 and those patients faced increased wait times at hospitals across the country, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). The data released by CIHI on Dec. 8 shows that 90 percent of emergency department visits for…

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Health Care Concerns at 2-Year High, Overtakes Inflation as Top National Concern: Survey

December 1, 2022
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Health care concerns are at a two-year high in Canada, surpassing jobs, economy, and inflation as the top national issue of concern, a Nanos Research survey says. The latest weekly survey by the public opinion company, which looks at a four-week change in the top ten national issues of concern, shows 16.1 percent of respondents…

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Second Wave is Not Unique to India but Country’s Problems are Unique: Global Healthcare Expert

May 6, 2021
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NEW DELHI—While experts are warning that a third wave is inevitable in India, a global healthcare executive who has authored a book on the pandemic told The Epoch Times that the current second wave is not unique to India. It’s happening in others parts of the world as well, but India’s unique set of problems…

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