ANALYSIS: Why Canada’s Health Care Is in Crisis

According to Statista, the number of hospital beds per 1,000 people in Canada has dropped from 7 in 1976 to below 3 in 2007, and further down to 2.58 in 2021.

The ballooning number of people dying while waiting for medical treatment is just one of the many symptoms of Canada’s current health-care crisis.

Surgical waitlist deaths have increased 64 percent nationwide since 2018, according to the think tank SecondStreet.org, which gathered health-care data through access-to-information requests.