90% of surgeries postponed due to COVID-19 now complete, B.C. government says Just over 84,000 patients are currently waiting for surgery, a decrease of 10 per cent compared with last February.Dix said the decision to postpone thousands of non-urgent surgeries over one weekend last year caused patients added anxiety and he heard from many of them.“It was, I would say, one of the most significant and difficult decisions that I’ve ever been part of and It was the right decision then and from this vantage point, it was also the right decision.”Michael Marchbank, who led the province’s surgical renewal plan and is a retired CEO of the Fraser Health Authority, said the traditional slowdown in surgeries was reduced last summer.Many of the.