A senior in B.C.’s Interior died after going into cardiac arrest while the only ambulance was dispatched to another town and the hospital’s emergency department was closed.
and issues recruiting and keeping paramedics are complex, another Interior mayor says the way health officials and government can address them are universal.
“There are a lot of people that are off on mental health leaves right now, and understandably so: they're working in a pressure cooker environment,” said Clearwater Mayor Merlin Blackwell. “We're going through two years of COVID and they've been working short-staffed for an awful long time, so sooner or later something's got to give and we're seeing that right now.”
He added that aside from stress leave and summer vacation, there’s no doubt in his mind that surging COVID-19 infections are also keeping people out of the workforce. Despite the impact the latest Omicron variant is having on hospital staff as well as the growing number of patients hospitalized with serious symptoms, the provincial government has made no move to reinstate public health measures andWhether it’s, or now-regular weekend closures of critically understaffed hospitals in Interior Health, Roden says availability of health care in smaller towns is becoming such a big and chronic issue, it’s changing the very fabric of those communities as aging...
"It breaks their heart to have to leave but they have to go,” she said. “It's the hollowing out of our small communities when we're trying to attract people to come live here.”
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