As of Sunday, August 1st, there will be a 75% cutback in the number of paramedics available to the Cortes Island Ambulance Service.
In fact, there won’t be any paramedics available on August 1st, or for 24 of the 62 shifts that month.
Continue reading 75% cut to Cortes Island Ambulance ServiceThe Strathcona Regional District Board is against a new ambulance service initiative that threatens the ability of rural communities like Cortes Island, Sayward, Tahsis and Zeballos to respond when there is an emergency.
BC Emergency Health Services has sent out a letter stating they intend to create 170 new ambulance service positions across the province.
What they did not say is they are cutting the pay for paramedics on standby back to $2 an hour.
Continue reading SRD against new ambulance service initiative for Rural AreasThere may be more to the enhanced emergency ambulance services being brought to rural communities like Cortes Island and Zeballos than meets the eye.
Continue reading Enhanced Emergency Ambulance Services? Or Catastrophic Collapse of a Service?
