Early Thursday morning, the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR) team was called to help the RCMP find a patient missing from Kelowna General Hospital.

At around 2 a.m., COSAR got a call from the Kelowna RCMP asking for help to find a patient who had walked away from the hospital shortly after having surgery.

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