{
  "id": 9811308,
  "title": "'B.C. is in a crisis': Number of patients waiting for surgery, dying on waitlists increasing, new data show",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/b-c-is-in-a-crisis-number-of-patients-waiting-for-surgery-dying-on",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-25T18:45:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vancouver Sun",
    "slug": "vancouver-sun",
    "url": "https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-crisis-number-patients-waiting-surgery-increases-data-show"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Canadian think tank SecondStreet.org released data showing 96,238 patients are waiting for surgery, up 8.4 per cent since 2022",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}