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Is hospital overcrowding delaying ambulances?

Bill Kelly Show

English - May 19, 2017 13:51 - 5 minutes
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Hamilton Paramedic Service is raising alarm that hospital overcrowding is causing too few ambulances to be out on the road responding to emergencies. The recommended time frame to have patients on ambulances handed off to hospitals is thirty minutes, however they say they regularly wait for longer than two hours.

Guest: Mario Posteraro, President, OPSEU Local 256.

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Hamilton Paramedic Service is raising alarm that hospital overcrowding is causing too few ambulances to be out on the road responding to emergencies. The recommended time frame to have patients on ambulances handed off to hospitals is thirty minutes, however they say they regularly wait for longer than two hours.


Guest: Mario Posteraro, President, OPSEU Local 256.