The City of Ottawa is calling on the Ontario Ministry of Health to do more to help cut down on the time paramedics wait with patients at local hospitals, resulting in poorer response times and unavailable ambulances.
The Ottawa Paramedic Service Annual Report says hospital offload delays create periods where all of the city's ambulances are either on calls or waiting at a hospital to transfer patient care, leaving the service at "level zero" with no ambulances available.
"Several of the mitigation efforts that the Ottawa Paramedic Service has put in place have actually reduced the level zero events, in spite of the fact that the actual offload delay numbers have worsened," Poirier said. "The motion acknowledges funding that the province has provided to date, we do want to acknowledge that and appreciate that, but the fact is the level zero numbers are still very, very high," Brockington said. "There a direct correlation, in my opinion, between the level zero incidents and the offload delays that we're experiencing."
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