UnHyphenated Canadian: Where Are All The Changes MGinty PROMISED....

Friday, March 21, 2008

Where Are All The Changes MGinty PROMISED....

...related to reduced wait times, more doctors, more nurses, etc. etc. I have personally witnessed EMS crews piled up at an emergency department waiting to get patients admitted. The hospital staff are doing their best but it is a vicious circle; there are no beds on the wards so patients in rooms in emergency can't be moved so that patients coming in pile up in the waiting rooms and this includes EMS personnel and equipment. The Smitherman adult diaper fiasco illustrates how well McGinty is managing the health of Ontario citizens and I blame those that got conned and voted for CHANGE.

Paramedics fear 'Russian roulette'

Union: Hospitals leave ambulances unable to respond to 911 calls

y DON PEAT, SUN MEDIA

The frantic calls from Toronto EMS to city hospitals warn again and again there are no ambulances to respond to 911 calls.

In text messages obtained by the Sun, EMS duty officers plead with hospitals to free up paramedics who are sitting with patients waiting to be admitted.

One text message warned two weeks ago that public safety was at risk with paramedics "unable to respond to 911 calls."

That warning and countless others advising Toronto ERs that ambulance levels are "critically short" and "desperately" low are detailed in edited logs from EMS' own Patient Distribution System.

At various times of the day and on several days stretching back to last fall, EMS repeatedly asks emergency departments to take in patients waiting at the hospital with paramedics so ambulances so can respond to calls.

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