BC Emergency Health Services

• Pilot program credited with helping Okanagan man survive heart attack

  Doug Bigelow of Vernon was moving firewood on his farm on a Saturday afternoon when he began experiencing chest pain.

  Health

  Mar 3
  
• Ambulance crews scramble to cover spike in overdose calls in B.C. Interior

  B.C. Emergency Health Services says crews responded to 37 overdose calls on Wednesday, up from 23 on Tuesday and 12 on Monday.

  Canada

  Feb 17
  
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• B.C. paramedics, dispatchers responded to record-setting 35,525 overdose calls in 2021

  Surrey saw the greatest increase in overdose calls with 3,764 calls in 2021, a leap of 50 per cent from 2020, according to BC Emergency Health Services.

  Health

  Jan 12
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• Paramedics sound alarm in Okanagan about access to medical care amid Omicron

  Ambulance paramedics in the Okanagan have long been calling for more resources, but the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is again renewing those calls.

  Canada

  Jan 11
• ‘Degrading’: 95-year-old waits six hours for ambulance on Vancouver apartment floor

  BC Emergency Health Services confirmed it received a 911 call about the fallen senior at 3:28 p.m. on Tuesday and paramedics arrived to pick him up at 9:16 p.m.

  Health

  Jan 5
• B.C. paramedics respond to 50 hypothermia, frostbite calls in four days

  There were nine exposure calls on Christmas and 13 on Boxing Day, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services.

  Health

  Dec 29, 2021
• 1 dead, one injured in ATV crash in Lake Country: Kelowna RCMP

  Kelowna RCMP said Tuesday Lake Country officers received a report on Sunday about two missing people who were ATVing in the Oyama Lake area.

  Traffic

  Dec 7, 2021
• Changes to B.C. 911 procedure ‘temporary,’ E-Comm clarifies, as union raises alarm

  A newly-announced change to the 911 transfer process in B.C. is raising alarm bells with the union representing more than 500 E-Comm staff in the province.

  Health

  Dec 2, 2021
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• B.C. 911 operators can now hang up on callers waiting for ambulances

  A new call transfer process announced by E-Comm allows its 911 operators to hang up while their callers wait to be connected with an ambulance.

  Health

  Dec 1, 2021
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• Head of BC Emergency Health Services leaving her position

  Darlene MacKinnon faced calls to resign for the agency's management of the BC Ambulance Service in the wake of the province's deadly heat wave.

  Health

  Nov 26, 2021