VANCOUVER -- The Drug Overdose Response Team, a joint initiative of Vancouver Coastal Health and Vancouver Fire Rescue Services, has been operating as a pilot project for 20 months and has connected more than 150 overdose patients to support services. Now, the city is making the project permanent. "This health crisis doesn't know any borders,” says VFRS Capt. Jonathan Gormick, the newly named lead for the response team. “We connect with patients in every corner of the city. East Van, the downtown eastside, Shaughnessy, UBC. Everybody is affected by this." Gormick joined Vancouver Coastal Health chief medical health officer Patricia Daly and City of Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart for a Zoom news conference about the program on Wednesday.