Doctors call for help as hospitals battle surgical backlogs, staffing shortages

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Cheryl Sword often has to stop and rest when she’s out with her husband and son. She’s been waiting almost two years for two ovarian cysts to be removed.

 

(Nicole Ireland/ CBC News) — Cheryl Sword does as many activities as she can with her husband and 11-year-old son, until she has to stop and rest.

“My abdominal pain and pressure stops me in my tracks,” Sword, 36, who lives in Sherwood Park, Alta., told CBC News.

She was supposed to have two ovarian cysts, one on each side, removed in early 2020. But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and ” the world shut down.”

Her doctor assured her that ovarian cysts are quite common and it would be fine to delay the surgery. (…)

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