400% More Ontario Patients Dying While Awaiting CT and MRI Scans: Report

400% More Ontario Patients Dying While Awaiting CT and MRI Scans: Report
An image of a patient’s brain is displayed on a monitor screen as she lies in a MRI machine at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital on May 1, 2018. Chris Young/The Canadian Press
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Ontario has seen a 400 percent increase since 2015 in the number of patients who have died waiting for medical scans to diagnose their illnesses, according to a new report by SecondStreet.org.
The report also found a 24.7 percent increase since 2018 in patients dying while on surgical wait lists nationwide. These findings follow a Fraser Institute report published earlier this month showing wait times for specialists and surgery in Canada are the longest in nearly 30 years.