CANADA 🇨🇦….SASKATCHEWAN WOMAN 👩 UNABLE TO BEAR EXCRUCIATING KNEE PAIN, PAYS $28000 IN CALGARY FOR KNEE SURGERY

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: Betty-Lynn Nylen, 70, was physically and mentally exhausted from excruciating knee pain. 



She had been on the Saskatchewan surgical waiting list for a year in late 2021, and her doctor told her it would be at least two more years before she'd be able to get knee replacement surgery, which is very coming in Canada the wait time for any Surgery unless it is an emergency. And during the Pandemic the wait time increased .

Saskatchewan had the worst wait times in Canada for hip and knee replacement surgeries in the first 18 months of the pandemic, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. 



About 35,000 people are currently on the surgical waiting list, per the Ministry of Health. 



BettyLynn Nylon decided she could no longer endure the pain and got surgery at a private clinic in Calgary in February. But it was no small feat — the surgery cost $28,000, on top of travel and accommodation expenses.



Dr. Ian Lutz, a Saskatoon orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip and knee replacements, currently has the second-longest waiting list in the province — 18 to 24 months. 



He said some of his patients have gone to Ontario, Alberta, the United States, Mexico and India for surgery.