COVID-19 pandemic, which Dr. Adam Kassam, president of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) called ‘unsustainable,’ the estimated time to catch up on the most common medical procedures would still be up to two years.“Using that rate, we know that there are 30 months’ worth of wait times for knee replacements, it’s 20 months for a hip replacement, it’s 25 months for cataract surgery.
So we’re talking months and years for the patients of Ontario,” said Kassam.“Our numbers right now are quite staggering,” he added.Elective surgeries were cancelled at the beginning of the pandemic and during the third wave leaving healthcare workers now scrambling to find ways to be creative and innovative as they aim to get them back on track.