\u0022Well, I don\u0027t where it was coming from, Alberta or Manitoba, but it finally arrived at seven o\u0027clock in the morning.\u0022
It happened on a night where three in every 10 Metro Vancouver ambulances were left parked because of a shortage of paramedics.
She called the emergency line sometime between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. and then rang her son, who helped her move to a more comfortable chair to wait. B.C. Emergency Health Services confirmed they received a call at 7:11 p.m. on Aug. 6 and paramedics arrived at 6:44 a.m. the next morning. The agency said 61 of 88 ambulances scheduled were staffed in Metro Vancouver during the night shift, which means 27 ambulances sat idle because of short staffing.Joys, who lives alone and was at home recovering from surgery on Wednesday, said she was glad she didn’t eat anything or take pain medication because she was taken into surgery quite quickly and given a partial hip replacement.
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