Alberta Health Forced to Cancel Non-Urgent Surgeries, Reduce Lab Services After Network Outage

Alberta Health Forced to Cancel Non-Urgent Surgeries, Reduce Lab Services After Network Outage
Health Minister Jason Copping addresses the children’s medication shortage in Edmonton, on Dec. 6, 2022. Jason Franson/The Canadian Press
Marnie Cathcart
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EDMONTON—A network outage that affected Alberta Health Services (AHS) for much of the day on Jan. 23 has been resolved and services are returning to normal, according to a 2 p.m. local time update on a temporary website the government health agency created to provide ongoing information.

The outage resulted in the postponement of some non-urgent, elective surgeries as a precaution to ensure emergency and urgent surgeries could continue, said AHS. Those patients impacted are being contacted to have their appointments rebooked.