He was expecting a call in the next couple months to finalize a date for his son's surgery, but is now concerned Olin won't be booked before his second birthday. He puts much of the onus on them for jeopardizing his son's surgery. There were 33,827 patients awaiting surgery as of June 30, according to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health, before surgery services returned to seasonal normals in July. Saskatchewan has the second-lowest rate of vaccinations across Canada, at just over 71 per cent of the eligible population fully vaccinated, according to CBC's vaccine tracker. Seventy-eight per cent of eligible Canadians are fully vaccinated.

Source: CBC News September 11, 2021 22:28 UTC