More Edmonton families are speaking out about worrying health-care wait times in Alberta, wondering what the waits will mean for their families’ care and how to improve them.

After six years of treatments, Samantha Dornbusch’s son’s cancer is now in remission.

When she saw the Global News story on Thursday about an 11-year-old boy’s chemotherapy appointments being cancelled , she was heartbroken.

Her family has been in and out of hospital since 2019, getting the treatments they need for nine-year-old Jackson.

In that time, Dornbusch says she’s noticed a significant change in care.

“There wasn’t the issue of there’s no beds, we’ve never really had that issue in the beginning, in the first three years. It’s been the last two-and-a-half years where it’s been like ‘Ok, we have no beds f

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