Medical tourism to Mexico grows as B.C. residents languish on local specialist wait lists

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Curt and Gwen Firestone live half the year in B.C. on Salt Spring Island and the other half in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Besides the obvious draw of sunny weather, the pair, who are in their 80s, chose Mexico because they require timely access to medical specialists, something they say they can’t get at home.
“I don’t want to spend my remaining years on a wait list,” said Curt Firestone. “B.C. should have first-world health care and we don’t.”

They’re not alone in their wait-list concerns. Last month, Postmedia News reported that 1.2 million B.C. residents were on a wait list to see a specialist last year, and that a new report due sometime this spring from Doctors of B.C. and the Specialist Consultants of B.C. is expected to show that number is growing. “You don’t have to wait in pain,” said Jorge Canela Magallan, owner of Vancouver Island-based Canela Health Connections, which helps Canadians access medical tourism in Mexico and Turkey. Magallan, a former doctor in Mexico, said he pairs clients with the best hospital for their procedure, helps with travel arrangements — including safe transport to and from the hospital — and completing forms to potentially recoup costs from the B.C. government.
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I wish I was a rich boomer and could spend half the year accessing quality healthcare.
 
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