Jill Hayward – June 8, 2022
[Excerpt from the Letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix] We are very concerned with the changes for full-time ambulance staff that require to have their Primary Care Paramedic (PCP). This has led to a staff shortage in Barriere and our understanding is that many rural communities such as ours are seeing the same problem in that full-time PCP qualified staff are migrating to large urban centers, leaving locations such as the Barriere facility with no ability to back-fill with qualified EMR’s as we have done in the past.
What has changed in the service of medical response in the past year that suddenly EMR qualified staff, which have been providing stellar service for many years, now because of an administrative change, can no longer be employed in the system?
