‘Fatigue and stress’: Interior paramedics responded to over 5k overdose, poisoning calls in 2022
The numbers show that throughout B.C., the call volumes were down last year, but that decrease was led by the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions.Story continues below advertisement
“A lot of people automatically think drug overdose [and] Downtown Eastside or a sketchy end of town, but I like to use the analogy of a white picket fence. It is in anybody’s home in anybody’s community. We are seeing it all over the province,” said Twaites.Overdose and drug poising calls also rose in Kelowna to more than 1,800 last year.
Out of all B.C. communities, Kelowna had the fourth most overdose and poisoning calls in the province last year.Calls were also up in Vernon and West Kelowna in 2022 but down slightly in Penticton .For Interior Health medical health officer Dr. Carol Fenton, the stats reflect the fact that the drug supply in the Interior and around B.C. continues to be “highly poisonous.”
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