N.W.T. father, son travel 2,000 kilometres for cancelled surgery in Edmonton
CBC
Jacob Lafferty travelled 2,000 kilometres with his father from their home in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., to Edmonton to get surgery on his elbow.
But it never happened.
"We flew down Sunday, went for our appointment Monday only to be told that everything is cancelled," said Lafferty's father, Tyrone Raddi.
Lafferty, 17, is one of several residents in the Northwest Territories that are currently in this predicament.
Surgeries across Alberta are being cancelled, and patients are being transported to other provinces as Alberta continues to see record numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Raddi said that it was nerve-wracking enough travelling from a small community that has never had a case of COVID-19, to a hotspot like Edmonton.
He had to book two days off work for the surgery, and his son, who is about to graduate in January, had to take time off school.