At least 6 EMS red alerts in Calgary over the weekend caused by staff shortages
The HSAA has been monitoring red alerts throughout the province and posting them online on their Twitter account.The data is provided voluntarily by the union’s membership and not released by Alberta Health Services, according to an HSAA spokesperson.According to that data, there were at least 18 red alerts issued in and around the Calgary area between Dec. 3 and 5, requiring ambulances to respond from the 15 surrounding municipalities including Banff, Vulcan, Olds, Kananaskis and Black Diamond.
“My grandmother spent the better part of an hour lying on the tile floor of my aunt’s kitchen,” Di Cintio said. “An hour is too much time for a response that’s supposed to be an emergency.” “She’s unbreakable, sure, but part of me, the morbid part of me perhaps imagines could that have been her last hour on the floor of a kitchen?” Di Cintio said. “And that breaks my heart.”In a statement to Global News, Alberta Health Services said the response for Di Ciento’s grandmother was longer than it should be, despite calls being prioritized “according to the severity of the medical condition or injury described by a caller at the time of a 911 call.
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