Mayor Sutcliffe in talks with province about local paramedic crisis
Last week, the city’s emergency preparedness and protective services committee heard that the city’s paramedic service is in dire straits and not meeting response time standards for the most serious 911 calls — including cardiac arrest.
portion of the problem caused by health system dysfunction which is the sole responsibility of the provinceArticle content, saying it pays 50 per cent of paramedic funding. The issues of level zeros and long hospital offload times have been chronic in Ottawa and are getting worse. Poirier said the paramedic service is losing 500 hours of paramedic time every day because of long waits at hospitals, none of which meet industry standards to offload patients into emergency.
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