A pilot program placing paramedics inside Montfort Hospital’s emergency department has been extended, with the hopes of putting ambulances back on the road faster and avoiding situations where no emergency vehicles are able to respond to incoming calls.
If the Ministry of Health gets its way, nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists could be joining or replacing critical care paramedics on Ornge Air Ambulances.
After an unprecedented summer where Ottawa's paramedic service had no ambulances to dispatch more often, mayoral candidates are promising to get the province to pay up.
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The N.W.T.'s health department is set to contract paramedics to help out at health centres and provide acute care in remote communities, but with a lack of healthcare staff right across the country, it's not clear where the territory could recruit from.