Deaths of Patients Awaiting Medical Treatment Spike in Ontario

Deaths of Patients Awaiting Medical Treatment Spike in Ontario
A bed is moved in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at St. Paul’s hospital in downtown Vancouver on April 21, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
Isaac Teo
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More and more people are dying while on wait lists for medical treatments in Ontario, but the province’s latest health data shows that the situation took a turn for the worse during the COVID-19 pandemic, a think tank says.

Released on Aug. 15, an analysis conducted by SecondStreet.org says that the Ontario Health Data shows a spike in the number of patients that died while awaiting surgery, CT scans, and MRI scans in 2021-22.