First it was an urgent call out for nurses at Royal Inland Hospital, now its a similar call out going out to paramedics in Kamloops.
NL News has learned that as of around 9 a.m. this morning, June 7, there was just one paramedic scheduled to work on all of the ambulances in Kamloops tonight, a city of about 100,000 people.
“I believe that is about four or five ambulances that would be out of service, which is a significant area without emergency services,” Troy Clifford, the President of the Ambulance Paramedics Association of BC, said on NL Newsday. “It is extreme with only one but we’ve been seeing these levels of out of service for a long time.”
“Hopefully, they’ll be able to find some people who will be willing to come in on overtime or from other areas but we’re really depleted in other areas as well so we don’t know if we have resources in Barriere or Chase or around to pull into, which is what happens on a daily situation.”
