Saskatchewan plans to send people to Alberta to get privatized surgeries, but the cost of travel won’t be covered by the government.
Health Minister Paul Merriman said the Saskatchewan Party government will begin paying a Calgary clinic this fall to perform 20 knee and hip surgeries a month for those on the province’s surgical wait list.
“If somebody does have the option to go to Calgary, they will incur the travel expenses back and forth, but they would have their surgery done considerably faster,” Merriman said.
“If somebody … has the financial means, they can do that and that opens up another spot within the public system.”…