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N.S. gets millions from Ottawa to achieve health-care wait time guarantees
Mon Mar 26, 4:02 PM



By Keith Doucette

HALIFAX (CP) - Patients who need cancer radiation therapy in Nova Scotia will get treatment within eight weeks by 2010 under a deal signed Monday between the provincial and federal governments.


If there is a longer delay, a patient will be given other options, including transportation to other provinces and possibly even the United States.


"(When). . . the oncologist has given you the diagnosis and says this is the course of treatment, that's when the clock starts," said Nova Scotia Health Minister Chris d'Entremont.


D'Entremont joined federal Health Minister Tony Clement in announcing that Nova Scotia will draw $24.2 million from a $612-million trust fund - announced in last week's federal budget - to establish the cancer treatment wait-time guarantee.


Quebec introduced Canada's first wait-time guarantees last year for knee and hip replacements and cataract treatments.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/health_ns_health_waits