REGINA - Saskatchewan's premier insists the wait times for surgeries are coming down despite a new report which says they rose slightly in 2007.
Premier Lorne Calvert acknowledges that lowering wait times has been a challenge in Saskatchewan and across the country. But he says there's been a drop in some areas, like orthopedics and cataract surgeries.
Calvert does admits that some wait times are above the national average.
The comments come after a new study from the Fraser Institute which found the waiting time for surgery and other therapeutic treatments went up slightly in 2007 to 18.3 weeks.
The study, entitled "Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada," found the longest wait in Saskatchewan, at 27.2 weeks.
