Ottawa’s paramedic chief says hiring more paramedics is only part of the solution to the record number of 'level zero' events in the city of Ottawa.
In 2022, there were 1,819 level zero events totalling 74,216 minutes, which is the equivalent to about seven weeks of time.
"COVID was an incredible burden on everyone, not just on the community but also on paramedics, on our ability to provide care in the community," Poirier said. "We are in a health care crisis," Poirier says. "The throughput of patients in the hospital affects our ability to put people into the system. For example, not enough long-term care beds, enough primary care physicians, enough surgical suites available and enough surgical beds available, all of those effect the throughput in the hospital. And whenever any of those are backup, it backups to the emergency department, and backups the paramedic service.
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