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The Evan Bray Show - Ben Reason + Open Lines - April 16th, 2024

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The Saskatchewan Government has been sharing updates and touting progress on its surgical backlogs. But new findings by the Canadian Institute for Health Information paint a picture of fewer elective surgery patients across Canada happening last year than pre-pandemic levels. Ben Reason with the CIHI joins Evan to walk him through those statistics. Then Evan opens the lines to you and asks...Hearing these numbers, do you think enough is being put into those efforts in our province?
16 Apr 2024 12PM English Canada News Commentary

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