N.S. Health president ready to swear on a Bible that surgery backlog will fall

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DP Leader Claudia Chender called that coincidence "convenient."

She also said Oldfield's plan to chip away at the list depended on the number of people waiting for surgery not growing.

"That's assuming that the list of 23,000 people waiting for surgery remains static over the next four years, which it will not.  And also it doesn't take into account the many, many, many people just waiting for a consultation," said Chender. "I hope that those benchmarks are exceeded because Nova Scotians deserve that, particularly from a government that promised to fix health care."

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