Health authorities are working through Omicron backlog.
Things are slowly returning to normal as health care authorities start to work through the backlog in surgeries and procedures postponed during the recent Omicron outbreak.
Health care professionals shifted priorities during the outbreak to lend a hand in vaccinations clinics while ORS slowed down during the holiday periods and the weeks thereafter.
Health Minister John Haggie says emergency surgeries and cancer treatments and other emergencies went ahead as usual throughout the outbreak with a minor setback due the cyber attack last fall.
In the meantime, Haggie says the health authorities are working their way through the Omicron backlog.
He says while there are some variations from the health authorities, the one major pressure point is endoscopies, have not yet returned to the pre=outbreak operations. Haggie been told, Eastern Health will have worked through backlog of procedures in the next two to three months.