Ashcroft Mayor Barbara Roden says she was sad, angry and “beyond frustrated” upon hearing an ambulance took nearly 30 minutes to reach a village resident who was in medical distress and died at the scene.
According to Roden, an Ashcroft man was walking his dog on Sunday morning and collapsed. A neighbour found him and contacted 911, and was informed that the ambulance was 35 minutes away. “He took the AED from fire hall and a couple of other firefighters arrived in their personal vehicles to see if they could help out. And they and a couple of neighbours were performing CPR until the paramedics arrived.”"They're waiting and waiting for the ambulance. And it's frustrating that it's happened again,” she said, adding that she’s heard now from more people who have experienced long wait times.
BC Emergency Health Services confirmed in a statement that paramedics received a call to respond to a patient in Ashcroft on Sunday, at 8:41 a.m. Roden said it’s important for BCEHS to review the incidents, but she also wants to see the agency identify and address the underlying causes of long wait times.“If you want ambulance paramedics in rural communities, recruit people who are already there, who know that lifestyle, who love rural B.C. … I think that way, you're going to have a lot more stability in the paramedic service.”
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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