Transition to PG Surgery Centre seamless

“Really, it has nothing to do with the tower build. We’re not building the tower to do cataract surgery, but we want to do it. We’re doing the best in Canada at wait times for cataract surgery. The Prince George Surgical Center wanted to move on.”

Anguish says the three permanent staff are staying on and many of the casual staff have as well and they have picked up an additional seven staff.

“We have a bit of time here to just sort things out. The longer term would be that we would operate that from that site as a continuation of the surgery department that we have at UHNBC.”

She says Northern Health has enough surgeons to fill these new operating rooms, but nursing staff is a challenge but it’s not the only one.

“The bigger challenge right now is anesthesiology. And there’s quite a provincial national shortage of anesthesiologists. So we’re working with the local anesthesiology leadership and they’re doing fantastic work of just trying to really optimize, even though they are down in numbers of being able to keep them as many hours as possible running that you reach and busy with cataract surgery.”

Surgeries completed at the surgical centre include plastic, orthopedic as well as the noted cataract surgeries.

by Cheryl Jahn

Transition to PG Surgery Centre seamless

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