Sask. heart, brain specialists brace as health-care slowdown worsens amid COVID-19 surge

The long list of types of medical care now on hold across Saskatchewan includes home care, rehabilitation and diabetes counselling, but also key brain and heart procedures.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority provided a general list of surgeries and other care being delayed or cancelled as COVID-19 patients, most of them unvaccinated, fill the province’s hospitals and intensive care units.

This comes as COVID-19 cases have been continuing to rise, with 426 new cases in the province announced Wednesday, 54 more than were reported the day before. Hospital numbers also set a new record for the fourth day in a row Wednesday. 

Specialists interviewed this week,