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'Extremely dangerous': N.B. paramedics warn about long waits and staffing shortages
Laura Brown
CTV News Atlantic Reporter
Published March 31, 2022 5:59 p.m. EDT
New Brunswick’s health minister says Horizon and Vitalite Health networks, Medavie Health Services, and the Department of Health met Thursday to discuss the situation with ambulance offload delays.
Dorothy Shephard said she was hoping for an immediate, temporary solution to a problem that could get worse as the latest wave of COVID-19 impacts the health-care system.
“We’ve got to put a solution in place to help them, to help everyone get through this, and I think there are a few considerations on the table that EMANB (Extra-Mural Ambulance New Brunswick) can help us with. But right now we need all of them to come to the table and I need urgent action,” she said.
As of Tuesday, 633 health-care workers across the province were off work due to COVID-19. Shephard says a lack of staff and discharges are, in part, causing the delays...
'Extremely dangerous': N.B. paramedics warn about long waits and staffing shortages
Laura Brown
CTV News Atlantic Reporter
Published March 31, 2022 5:59 p.m. EDT
New Brunswick’s health minister says Horizon and Vitalite Health networks, Medavie Health Services, and the Department of Health met Thursday to discuss the situation with ambulance offload delays.
Dorothy Shephard said she was hoping for an immediate, temporary solution to a problem that could get worse as the latest wave of COVID-19 impacts the health-care system.
“We’ve got to put a solution in place to help them, to help everyone get through this, and I think there are a few considerations on the table that EMANB (Extra-Mural Ambulance New Brunswick) can help us with. But right now we need all of them to come to the table and I need urgent action,” she said.
As of Tuesday, 633 health-care workers across the province were off work due to COVID-19. Shephard says a lack of staff and discharges are, in part, causing the delays...