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Canadians take pride in their universal health care systems, but the COVID-19 pandemic — combined with a growing population — has placed enormous strain on health resources. Hospitals are at or over capacity, surgeries and procedures have been delayed and there is increasing need for mental health services. Adding to the pressures, health care providers are burned out and some are leaving their profession.
the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), an independent organization which compiles and analyzes health system data, conducted A new report highlights Canada's major drop in surgeries during the early years of the pandemic, but those pains were felt unequally across the country's patchwork provincial health-care systems — with the largest decrease in procedures seen in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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