New lung clinic to tackle Nova Scotia’s long waitlists for breathing tests – CBC

Privately funded clinic at Dalhousie University to serve as training facility for respiratory therapy students

Nov 13, 2025

A new lung clinic opening in Halifax at the end of November is hoping to tackle long waitlists for breathing tests, while also aiming to act as a recruitment tool to fill respiratory therapy vacancies in Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia Lung Wellness Clinic has been in the works for over two years. It was a proposed solution to a growing problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people in some parts of the province faced a four-year wait for a five-minute spirometry test.

“When I tell my colleagues elsewhere in the world about how long people wait here for a breathing test, it’s quite embarrassing because we know that we can do better and it’s a problem that has a simple solution,” said Sanja Stanojevic, an associate professor at Dalhousie University’s department of community health and epidemiology.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-lung-wellness-clinic-opening-9.6976405