By Jaryn Vecchio
Tany Yao with Laila Goodridge. Photo by: Brandon Piper//Harvard Broadcasting
The Alberta NDP is calling out the provincial government over their handling of EMS dispatch service in the RMWB.
Wood Buffalo council met on Tuesday where they approved having the local emergency communications centre refuse to transfer medical 9-1-1 calls to Alberta Health Services’ provincial centres.
This decision was made due to Regional Emergency Services needing to intervene in 20 per cent of calls since AHS took over in mid-January.
NDP’s Health Critic David Shepherd tells Mix News this situation was made because the government refused to listen to legitimate concerns from the RMWB.
By Jaryn Vecchio
RMWB employee at the local EMS dispatch site // Photo via RMWB
Alberta Health Services is continuing to defend its dispatch system following Wood Buffalo council’s decision to stop sending calls to their provincial centres.
They met yesterday where they approved having the local emergency communications centre once again handle all medical emergencies after reports of local dispatchers needing to intervene in around 20 per cent of calls since AHS took over in mid-January.
In a statement, AHS’s Chief Paramedic Darren Sandbeck says there’s no evidence their system has put any patient’s life at risk.