WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the consensus decision during a special session of the U.N. health agency's members was a "cause for celebration.''
The province says demand for health care at Trillium Health Partners is expected to expand to seven times that at the average Ontario hospital over the next 20 years due to Peel Region's booming population.
Health systems lost an average of 118 days of procedure time for hip replacements on the high end of the spectrum, and an average of 46 days for breast cancer surgery on the low end.
A Manitoba man who needed hip surgery opted to have the procedure done in Mexico for $16,000 rather than wait the expected two to three years in his home province.
After noticing a number of patients making the rounds at various community pharmacies with prescriptions from different walk-in clinics, Michelle Manolal decided to do something about it. This week she launched a petition on Change.org.
Numerous experts have long predicted that new variants would emerge in less developed countries if the pace of vaccinating their citizens lags behind richer countries.
