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Paramedics are concerned with Ambulance New Brunswick introducing a dispatching system that uses artificial intelligence to send them to calls, says Derek Cassista, president of the Paramedic Association of New Brunswick.
Emergency medical technicians need nine weeks of training compared to the 50 weeks it takes to become a paramedic. They will be allowed back on ambulances for the first time since they were deemed to need more training in 2007, but will have a more limited role.
Leaders of a New Brunswick village and the province’s ambulance service met in a marathon meeting Wednesday night to hammer out ways to improve rural response times.
Offload delays, where paramedics are unable to transfer a patient at the hospital because there are no beds or not enough health-care workers to staff those beds, have become more of an issue in New Brunswick this year.