Editor, The Times:
I am writing to ask why Royal Inland Hospital seems to be so poorly administrated.
I live with chronic pain and periodically require a surgical procedure that helps lessen the pain.
I have been booked for this procedure and then cancelled five times.
Why?
I have never heard of a patient being cancelled five times and I think it is a disgrace.
I am told I can’t get another surgery date until mid-January because that is the next time my surgeon has operating-room time.
I am thoroughly ticked off because I am in a lot of pain, to the point I can’t think straight or function properly.
I have written to Terry Lake, our health minister and our MLA for Kamloops-North Thompson, but I have heard nothing back.
What does a person like me do?
I can’t afford private care and I think it is a great dysfunction of our health system that I can’t get my surgery in a timely manner.
Barbara Ray Beal
Kamloops, B.C.
