If you live in the Canadian province of British Columbia, you can expect months-long wait time to get a breast biopsy done. Till then you can expect pre-cancerous cells to grow. You can even expect the women of your province to die out of the disease eventually because they clearly don’t have enough resources to deal with it.
The lives of thousands of women are at serious risk in British Columbia now.
It’s expected that more than 4,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in B.C. this year. One in eight women has a chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime.
Women suffering from breast cancer aren’t able to get biopsies done on time. They are required to wait for 3-4 months to get a biopsy done to determine whether they have breast cancer or not.
But, what if it spreads?
Three months after Kristina Tanner was told she needed a biopsy to determine if she had breast cancer, the procedure finally happened this week.
But the wait for the 69-year-old Vancouver resident, whose mother died of breast cancer three years ago, has been stressful.
“It’s very upsetting because it’s always hanging over you,” she said.
Wait times are distressing enough that even doctors have sounded the alarm in the province. But, where’s the Ministry of Health? It seems disinterested in addressing the concern.
Gordon, a clinical professor in UBC’s Department of Radiology, says wait times for breast biopsies are “unacceptable.”
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“Of the biopsies I did this week, most of them were (waiting) in the 12- to 13-week range,” she said.
“It’s really unbearable for some women to wait any length of time, but months?”
While she said that for most women, a couple months doesn’t make a difference, for some, the time gap is critical.
“If people are waiting this long to get a necessary test when they might have cancer – and it might even be a fast-moving cancer – then we clearly don’t have enough resources dealing with it,” she said.
While doctors and clinical professors are calling out for more resources and more clinics to offer biopsies for patients, BC’s Ministry of Health is turning a deaf ear to the grave concern.
“We’re really in trouble now, like so much else in the health-care system. They need to start working on a fix,” said Gordon.
CTV News began contacting the Ministry of Health regarding the wait times. To date, the ministry has not come up with any response.
At times, when so many things are falling apart in Canada, liberal poster boy Justin Trudeau is nowhere to be seen. He’s absconding from facing the grave crisis that Canada is reeling under.
Not to mention, Canadian provincial healthcare systems were already sounding an alarm about a paucity of epidurals that has been caused due to global supply chain issues. Epidurals are the critical pain managers used for pregnant women in labour.
It might be troubling for us to learn about the looming problems in Canada but not for the Liberal fanatic Trudeau. With hospitals going through rolling closures of their Emergency Rooms and other departments, some small hospitals are shutting down for full weeks, and others randomly closing overnight in the middle of the week.
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But, the fanatic prime minister can’t get enough of communicating through the press. He is and will continue burying his head in the sand. The premiers believe that the federal government must engage with them individually because each province’s health system has different needs. They have repeatedly demanded that the federal government’s share in healthcare costs should be “ramped up from 22 per cent to 35 per cent and maintained at that level over time”.
The federal government, however, has consistently resisted these demands. The premiers have alleged that such a proposition that enforces the PM to dismiss meeting with them is an insult in itself.
With each passing day, Trudeau is pushing Canada closer to a grave healthcare crisis. Make no mistake, by running away from holding a meaningful discussion with the premiers and by refusing to address the lack of funding by the federal government in health care, Trudeau is risking the lives of millions of innocent Canadians.
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