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Brenda MacDonald and her children have been on the physician wait list for two and a half years. She is left wondering when she will ever get a family doctor.
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.
File Photo A new report investigating ambulance service in Nova Scotia finds they are spending a significant amount of time waiting in emergency departments to off-load patients. Fitch and Associates released the long-delayed report on Monday and it contains 68 recommendations in total – 64 of which have already been implemented and built into a new collective agreement. The firm also points out that ambulances are often tied up responding to requests to transfer patients between facilities. Fitch classifies these tasks as non-emergencies and lead to situations where ambulance coverage is s...