Fellow Canadians: Visit British Columbia at your own risk
Now, B.C. is paying exorbitant sums to send patients to the U.S. to get treated. The irony. Problems at the BC Cancer Agency have been. For years now, those who have headed the agency, and the doctors working inside it, have been warning of a coming catastrophe unless more people were hired to deal with the approaching deluge of new cases thanks to an aging population.in medical imaging technologists for diagnostic and surgical procedures. Again, the red flag was mostly disregarded.
Today, B.C. is missing wait-time benchmarks all over the place. This may be the last province in the country in which you want to get cancer, because after you’ve been diagnosed you can often wait an awfully long time for the next steps. And that is a terrifying wait, I assure you. To be fair, governments have sometimes been failed by the experts, too. A B.C. health care commission report in 1991 found that too many doctors were contributing to rising health care costs. The solution? Cut back on supply, including the number of spaces at medical schools. The consequences of that decision are still reverberating today.
Even while doctors in hospitals like Surrey Memorial are pleading for help, they know there is no immediate remedy for what ails the system. There is nothing the B.C. government can do at this point that is going to fill the staffing shortages that exist there and elsewhere. It will take time. Maybe years.
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