Advanced clinical trials in Canada, which were consistent between 2015 and 2019, decreased by 26 per cent in 2020.
Health Care
New drugs are approved later in Canada than in the United States and European Union.
Regardless of their potential impact on patient health, drug approval times in Canada were longer than in other countries.
The province had the capacity to perform more than 1.3 million CT exams but only 419,000 were actually performed.
Hospitals currently view patients as costs that eat into the budget.
Drugs were approved in the U.S. 469 days earlier (on average) than in Canada.
The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity.
If Moderna had been allowed to sell its vaccines earlier, many Canadian death and illnesses may have been prevented.
The provincial government contracted several private surgical clinics to help clear the backlog.
Premier Ford wants the federal government to cover 35 per cent of health-care costs, up from 22 per cent.
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