The Current16:50Anesthesiologist shortage puts surgeries in jeopardy
Kelly Konieczny is one of many people who’ve had their surgeries delayed because of a lack of anesthesiologists in Alberta.
“I was shocked because I would have never thought that this was a possibility, and I felt like we just had the rug pulled out from under us,” said Konieczny.
Konieczny has a chronic kidney disease and has been waiting for a living kidney donor for more than four years.
But she was told earlier this month by her transplant coordinator that the transplant agency for northern Alberta temporarily pulled out of the National Kidney Paired Donation Program, in part,
