B.C. Emergency Health Services

• Ashcroft, B.C. senior dies while waiting for ambulance

  A senior man has died in the Village of Ashcroft, Sunday morning, while reportedly waiting for an ambulance to arrive.

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  Aug 14, 2022
  
• Man who crashed in West Kelowna gets help from Central Okanagan Search and Rescue

  About a kilometre up the road, the man and his dogs were found standing by an abandoned campfire that had been started a few hours ago.

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  Dec 22, 2021
  
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• Vancouver paramedics fired after encouraging Downtown Eastside patient to crawl along floor

  "It is difficult to imagine that this type of sub-standard patient care by a paramedic would be afforded to anyone out of the DTES."

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  Aug 12, 2020
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• New 911 protocol in B.C. has some patients waiting longer

  When does a medical call need first responders? How long can a patient wait? Who decides?

  Jan 16, 2019
• Concern grows over ambulance wait times in B.C. after injured cyclist waits over an hour

  After crashing his bike on a Pitt Meadows road, Richard Stefani lay on the ground with serious injuries and waited more than an hour for an ambulance.

  Sep 29, 2016
• B.C. Emergency Health Services scraps $2.8 million electronic patient care record system

  The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is raising the alarm after, it says, B.C. Emergency Health Services has scrapped a multi-million dollar electronic record system.

  Aug 13, 2014