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A Vancouver Island family is devastated after making a trip to the Lower Mainland this week for surgery only to have it cancelled two hours before it was scheduled to begin.
Hundreds of people in the Victoria area have had their surgeries postponed, amid the prolonged closure of four operating rooms at two capital region hospitals.
Quebec says a new deal with the province's medical specialists federation will see doctors and other health professionals work overtime in order to reduce the backlog of surgeries.