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The union representing Nova Scotia paramedics is continuing its campaign over lengthy wait times for offloading patients at hospitals after 7 ambulances were stuck outside the emergency department at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital on Monday.
SYDNEY, N.S. -- Ambulances were a plenty outside of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney on Wednesday, but that hasn't always been the case across the province, according to the head of Nova Scotia's paramedics union. "We're actually passed a health care crisis. We keep hearing we're in a health care crisis, but we're actually on the brink of disaster in our opinion and our member's opinion," says Michael Nickerson, the Nova Scotia Paramedics Union CEO. Nickerson and the paramedics union are once again sounding the alarm on staffing shortages in the province, and have re...
Posted: Feb 18, 2021 8:57 PM AT | Last Updated: February 19 Phil Stewart, the senior manager of provincial operations at EHS, speaks during a virtual media briefing on Thursday. (CBC) A Nova Scotia fire department was given the proper protective equipment to safely respond to medical calls during the pandemic mere days after a woman died in her home near the station, Emergency Health Services said Thursday. April George died after collapsing Feb. 8 at her home in Bass River. It took 80 minutes for an ambulance to arrive after her husband, Kevin, called 911. No one from the fire hall was a...
RIVER JOHN, N.S. -- Families of patients who died before paramedics arrived are sounding the alarm about ambulance wait times in Nova Scotia and the paramedics' union is doing the same. When Teddy Joudrey had a heart attack, he called his daughter, Grace Clough, who dialled 911. "I was on the phone with my father for 15-20 minutes before he passed away or he went silent," Clough said. Joudrey died and never went to the hospital. Clough says it took 45 minutes for paramedics to arrive. "It’s enraging that a fire department is two minutes away that has men that could possibly go to ...
Posted: Feb 16, 2021 7:03 PM AT | Last Updated: February 17 Grieving husband seeks answers after 80-minute ambulance wait for dying wife CBC News Nova Scotia2 months ago 2:49Kevin George wants answers after it took more than an hour for help to come for his wife. April George did not survive. Now, the situation is raising questions about the role of firefighters in medical emergencies. Shaina Luck reports.2:49 Firefighters should be able to work as medical first responders during the pandemic if they get the right personal protective equipment, the head of the Fire Service Association of Nova...