‘Unimaginable’: Couple waits 2.5 hours for ambulance after injury at Halifax park
Kevin McMullen, business manager of the union representing Nova Scotia paramedics, said cases like these happen “all too often.”
“It’s unfortunate. What we’re seeing is a higher increase in demand for calls and fewer resources because we’re just not able to staff enough units at the present time.”Story continues below advertisement Thompson confirmed offload times are a big part of ambulance waits. She said government is working on increasing capacity in long-term beds to alleviate offload times with incoming patients.
Since that change, according to Thompson, the number of drives completed by paramedics dropped to 22 per cent from 85 per cent.However, she said there are currently vacancies for paramedics in the province.
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