Premier Danielle Smith said the province have been giving additional billions to Alberta Health Services but AHS isn't doing more surgeries.
But when looking at the government's chart, total surgeries are up from Nov. 2021 to Nov. 2024, but CFS surgeries are down
But when looking at the government's chart, total surgeries are up from Nov. 2021 to Nov. 2024, but CFS surgeries are down
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As always, thank you, Catherine, for your always stellar work. Your fact-checking is absolutely vital, now more than ever. The truth needs to get out to ABs, too many are willing to believe AHS is evil.
She lies and lies it must be exhausting for journalists.
Looking at the longer term you see drops during large Covid outbreaks at both, then attempts to catch up.
You can also see an increase in the number of people people on the waitlist outside of clinically recommended wait times.
https://healthanalytics.alberta.ca/SASVisualAnalytics/?reportUri=%2Freports%2Freports%2Fd0dd62a3-001d-443c-a395-9431b63f142b§ionIndex=0&sso_guest=true&reportViewOnly=true&reportContextBar=false&sas-welcome=false
Alternatively, you can go to this page, scroll down and click the link for the Alberta Surgical Initiative (ASI) Performance Dashboard.
https://healthanalytics.alberta.ca/health-analytics.html