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Owen Sound Sun Times
Normally at this time of year the Grey and Bruce county paramedic services would be pulling back the curtain and giving residents an inside look at their operations.
Instead, COVID-19 has prevented typical Paramedic Services Week celebrations.
Open houses, barbecues and the popular Second Chance Reunion — where survivors reunite with the paramedics who helped save their lives — have all been cancelled amid the global pandemic.
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College of Paramedics of Manitoba
Public consultation on the College of Paramedics of Manitoba General Regulation will occur from May 1 – June 29. The draft regulation is found here. The consultation serves to provide a forum for all members of the public to provide feedback to the College.
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High River Online
It's Paramedic Services Week Coast to Coast and your chance to thank some of the front line workers who save lives and risk their's every day.
High River Primary Care Paramedic, Helene Hamilton, says the support they've been seeing from the community during the pandemic has really helped with their morale.
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Lake 88.1
The unprecedented challenges of working on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic are not for the faint of heart. Lanark County Paramedics have reacted and adapted to keep our community healthy and safe during the COVID-19 crisis. Last week was Paramedic Services Week, which provided an opportunity to recognize the Paramedics in Lanark County.
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Windsor Star
Local paramedics cycling to raise money for a national monument honoring paramedics who’ve died in the line of duty took a poignant ferry ride to Pelee Island this week.
It was just off the island in 1989 that one of their own, Windsor Provincial Ambulance Service’s Russ Ransome, 28, died in an air ambulance crash shortly after takeoff.
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CBC News
A naked man driving a stolen ambulance crashed into a Winnipeg cultural centre on Friday morning, May 29, a witness says, narrowly missing some people outside the building.
Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service Chief John Lane said the incident began around 8:30 a.m. Paramedics en route to another station happened upon someone who was "clearly in need of assistance" in the area of Notre Dame Avenue and Furby Street, Lane said.
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Toronto.com
Toronto police have issued a public safety alert after a medical equipment bag containing a quantity of the drug Epinephrine was stolen.
This drug can be dangerous if administered or consumed without proper medical training or a prescription by a medical doctor. Epinephrine, which is also known as adrenaline, is often used to treat life-threatening allergic reactions.
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Orillia Matters
What's it like to work on the front lines during a pandemic?
“For me, I’m not so much concerned with my personal or physical health, given that I’m relatively young with no other factors or illnesses that would increase my chances with this virus, but I do have concerns for my family,” said Brad Campbell, a paramedic with the County of Simcoe Paramedic Service.
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Renfrew Today
The Outaouais Paramedic Cooperative is offering additional support to assist the Integrated Services Department of the region in dealing with a staffing shortage at La Gappe longterm care residence. Two teams of four people will lend a hand to the at the residence for a period of 14 days.
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Global News
Winnipeg paramedics are administering record amounts of naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses, as the city’s drug problem continues unabated despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cory Guest, public education coordinator with the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, told 680 CJOB that one of the problems first responders are encountering on the streets is drug users taking multiple drugs at once — so it’s hard to know what they’re working with.
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Guelph Today
The Guelph-Wellington Paramedic Service has added 19 new paramedics to its fold.
The new hirings – 16 women and three men – were at the Clair Road Emergency Services Centre going through orientation this week.
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Bradford Today
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused industries, businesses, organizations and healthcare service providers to adapt to new requirements and protocols. County of Simcoe Paramedics are no exception, having expanded the Community Paramedicine program to provide services to our most vulnerable residents during this medical pandemic.
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CTV News
Renfrew County Paramedics are offering drive-thru COVID-19 testing now through Saturday to anyone in the county who wants a test.
Renfrew County chief paramedic Michael Nolan tells CTV News, drive-thru sites made sense for the region.
"We’ve chosen to go with drive-thru swabbing sites across the county, recognizing that the county is so large and the population is spread out."
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CBC News
A Thunder Bay paramedic says a groundswell of "amazing" support from the community has helped to offset the stress and challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I have to honestly say I think the biggest contributing factor to improving our morale at work right now has been the community response," said Kristi Campbell, a primary care paramedic with the City of Thunder Bay, and vice-president of the Superior North Association of Professional Paramedics.
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CTV News
In her decade of service, Dorchester based paramedic, Kristin Smukavic, has never had to question the level of emotional support she can offer a patient.
But at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, she says most paramedics had to judge their level of comfort.
“It was tough at first. Just like putting your hand on the patients shoulder and reassuring them they are a person under that mask”.
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Discover Airdrie
It’s Paramedic Services Week in Canada, recognizing the men and women who work to help those in need of emergency medical help.
The national event is aimed at highlighting the critical and life-saving work the first responders do — from the emergency communications officers who answer the phone when you call for an ambulance, to the front line paramedics who respond to calls for help.
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Ottawa Sun
Of about 600 Ottawa Paramedic Service employees, including between 450 and 500 front-line paramedics, three have tested positive, with contact tracing determining that all three were infected in the community outside their jobs.
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Delta Optimist
Recently I experienced a medical emergency and found myself in need of a paramedic. Although it was a frightening experience, I came away with a sense of profound gratitude for the two wonderful paramedics who were so extraordinary to both me and my worried family.
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