90 Percent of Surgeries Postponed During First COVID-19 Wave Now Completed, BC Says

Surgery recipient Isabelle Azzopardi eats, while her mother, Mary, sits by her bedside in the pediatrics unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Canada, on Dec. 9, 2020. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

The B.C. government said 90 percent of patients who had their surgeries postponed during the first wave of COVID-19 had completed their surgeries as of Nov. 22, 2020.

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix announced Wednesday that between May 18 and Nov. 12, 2020, over 163,000 patients were able to have their procedures done, including 90 percent of those whose surgeries had to be postponed during the first wave of the pandemic.