Sex-change tourists
Critics say B.C. is wasting thousands of dollars by sending transgendered patients to Quebec for specialized surgery we could do here
Ethan Baron, The Province
Published: Sunday, March 30, 2008
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=d9bd2646-66d4-461c-918b-3c411397db5eVictoria is paying thousands of dollars in extra costs for B.C. patients to get sex-change surgery at a private clinic in Quebec -- while a specially recruited Vancouver surgeon has been denied operating room time for more than two years.
Despite the cost of sending patients east, the provincial health ministry just shot down a Vancouver Coastal Health proposal to perform the surgeries in Vancouver.
