#!?+;:/?*#.!!! Manitoba

 I was refused in manitoba, also manitoba does not have duodendal switch surgery which is the one that is best for me. the only place in canada that does my surgery is ontairio and they will not accept out of province people.  Montreal may have surgeons that do it (not sure if they accept out of province folks but it would be way out of my price range.  so to me it is not available in canada

 I checked on Montreal surgeon (private clinic) done laproscopicly , DS surgery is done there in 2 stages a year apart. cost is between 23,000 and 25,000. That means 2 surgeries (twice the risk and twice thw pain) and with travel expenses three times the cost. Mexico looks pretty good.

i totaly understand the issue with DS sugery and agree it should also be offered here

It sucks when you are stock between a rock and a hard place!  I was not excepted in MB and for Dr. Nohr it is a around a 5 year waitlist.  Yes that is right 5 years!

I believe that the wait list is 10 yrs in Nova scotia with no  real plans to reduce the same.

There have been wait lists for ages for other procedures that are even more critical. My mom waited for well over a year and a half for a heart valve replacement. She was a ticking time bomb and could have passed away any moment really. My uncle died of the same issue. The government really doesn't see this as a priority, and sadly probably won't. I wasn't willing to wait any longer for the surgery and felt very confident about the surgeon I saw in Mexico. He's done thousands of this surgery compared to maybe a hundred here. 

As for the complications .... I doubt they would do a revision surgery or make it the way you might need it to work.  But they sure as hell would fix leaks or any complications that came up after surgery. They can't ignore life threatening complications for any reason. I would really question that if I was told that. It's like the people who knew some cousin of their friend's mother in law who died from wls, or all the people I was told about who gained all their weight back after surgery. Of course on inspection , I hear they had their surgery in the 1980's etc Typically not even the same surgeries we are getting now.  Anyway  , I'm ranting here.

 I am not sure on this but in emergency cases they try  to fix you up and manitoba health bills you later. If its due to surgery you had out of manitoba without a referral.