LONDON, ONT. --
Neal Roberts, the Chief with the Middlesex-London Paramedic Service says in more than 40 years, he’s never experienced anything like this.
“I was in the emergency unit on the weekend and call after call our paramedics were coming in with positive COVID patients,” says Roberts. “These patients are sicker, especially with the variants of concern.”
Now on top of the heavy workload here, the service is being called upon to help with the dire situation in the Greater Toronto Area transporting critically ill patients to other hospitals in southwestern Ontario.
“On a daily basis we are working with London Health Sciences Centre on taking a team of an intensive care physician, a respiratory therapist and an intensive care nurse up to Toronto to bring back an intensive care or critical care patient,“ says Roberts.