July 11, 2022
Dr. Andrew Clark, an orthopedic surgeon at the Moncton Hospital, says a lack of recruitment of anesthesiologists and nurses and the failure to open more operating rooms are at the root of a heavy backlog of patients waiting to get knee and hip surgeries in the region. Clark is part of a group of doctors at the hospital who stopped taking referrals because of the long wait lists and says patients in the Moncton area would be better off getting treated in other parts of the province. A GNB website shows surgical wait times are as follows:
- For orthopedic surgeries, nine out of 10 patients waited 595 days to get a hip replacement at the Moncton Hospital and 853 days for a knee replacement, compared to 315 days waited by nine out of 10 patients for a hip replacement and 362 days for a knee replacement at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre; and
- Across all facilities in the province, nine out of 10 patients waited 470 days for a hip replacement and 563 days for a knee replacement.
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