BCRS President, Dr. Yong-Hing, speaks to CBC in this segment, “B.C Sending Cancer Patients Across the Border to Address Wait Times.”
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“The wait time in BC was bad in the fall and the situation is now critical,” Dr. Yong-Hing.
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