Hamilton paramedics answered yet another suspected opioid overdose call from the Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre on Wednesday — the seventh in as many days.
EMS Supt. Dave Thompson told Global News that crews were sent to the jail on Barton Street during the noon hour, where they treated a 31-year-old female.
She was eventually transported to hospital in stable condition.
This instance makes seven suspected overdoses at the facility in less than seven days.
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On Monday night, EMS responded to three reported overdoses, a man and two females.
Last Thursday night, paramedics treated a female suspected to have overdosed on opioids, and later, evaluated a second patient in the same call at the jail.
A short time later, a third patient experiencing overdose symptoms was also treated.
All three inmates are believed to have been cellmates.
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Hamilton paramedics have responded to more than 60 emergencies to the jail so far in 2019 according to Thompson.
In the city, paramedics have responded to more than 300 opioid-related calls, a pace which could overtake the 450 calls the service received in all of 2018.
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