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Global News
The coronavirus pandemic has been hitting a lot of people hard, both physically and mentally. For those on the front line, it’s taken even more of a toll on their ability to cope, day-to-day.
So Wounded Warriors Canada and Ontario Shores have created a program to help with first responders’ mental health.
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CBC
An epidemic of fatal drug overdoses across Canada is on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that harm-reduction workers and doctors say exacerbates the toxic supply.
Overdose prevention sites continue to run but physical distancing guidelines mean fewer people are able to use the services. For example, a site in Toronto that previously averaged more than 100 visits a day now sees fewer than half that.
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The London Free Press
A bus joining an ambulance fleet? Yes.
An old London Transit bus is being converted into a multi-patient unit that could help in the local response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as paramedics’ response to larger incidents.
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Las Vegas Sun
Wynn Las Vegas is offering first responders — hospital and medical workers, police and firefighters — a free one-night stay this month.
“We were thrilled to be able to reopen our resort and feel that it is only appropriate to invite those who have worked tirelessly to be among our first guests,” Marilyn Spiegel, president of the Strip resort, said in a statement.
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BBC News
All three Welsh fire services have provided a pool of drivers who have been trained for the Welsh Ambulance Services Trust to draw on.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service staff began the new service at the end of May.
The firefighters will drive "non blue-light" vehicles.
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Strathoy Age Dispatch
Backlogs at local hospitals and strong population growth are combining to put pressure on the London area paramedic service — a situation the ambulance chief says underscores the need for more funding in years to come.
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Yanko Design
How does an ambulance reach a victim in a road/highway accident when there are more than a dozen cars stuck in a traffic jam between the ambulance and the site of the accident? Up until now, the only solution was to drive in the opposite lane, weaving through oncoming traffic to get to the victim.
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CBC
The COVID-19 health emergency has created a disruption for a 15-year master plan for the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, but the service's chief says it is not a significant setback for the long-term plan.
The sweeping revamp of service delivery will see a new fire hall built in the Waverley West suburb and other halls closed, with their crews consolidated in remodeled locations.
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Journal Métro
La pandémie a bouleversé le monde du travail depuis la mi-mars. Il en va de même pour les paramédics d’Urgences-santé qui doivent s’adapter à de nouveaux protocoles afin d’éviter la propagation du coronavirus pour leur propre sécurité et celle de leurs patients.
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The Vauxhall Advance
HALO Air Ambulance has confirmed an immediate extension of full medevac operations. In light of Health Minister Shandro’s instruction to Alberta Health Services to restart, and fast-track, the provincial Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Review and with an overwhelming outpouring of community support, HALO has raised significant funds to help ensure the continuation of HALO Air Ambulance service.
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EMS World
Demers Ambulances USA Inc. will unveil a new ambulance model from the CCL 150 product line of Crestline brand ambulances on June 24. The CCL 150 line of ambulances aims to provide a sigh of relief for U.S.-based EMS organizations who desire safe and durable ambulances, at an affordable price.
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laTribune
Bonne nouvelle au Cégep de Sherbrooke : l’institution espérait depuis près de 10 ans offrir le programme de soins préhospitaliers d’urgence afin de former les futurs ambulanciers. L’institution a eu le feu vert, en collaboration avec le Cégep Beauce-Appalaches. Les deux établissements offriront le programme d’une durée de trois ans de manière conjointe.
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Prince Albert Daily Herald
Parkland Ambulance has temporarily added new members to its community paramedics program with funding from the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
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St. Thomas Times-Journal
London paramedic Mathew Jeffs spends his days helping others.
Now he’s getting some help in return, after a horrific flame jetting accident.
Jeffs, 26, suffered second- and third-degree burns to his face after the freak accident May 30.
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The Rocky Mountain Goat
A new collective agreement between CUPE 873 Ambulance Paramedics and BCEHS is going to change how paramedics are paid and one rural paramedic is speaking up about it.
Until recently paramedics on call would receive four hours per shift at their full wage, regardless of whether they receive a call or not, but new changes to the collective agreement means that paramedics will no longer receive four hours of guaranteed pay, leaving them with just $2 per hour while they are on call.
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YorkRegion.com
As they fan out across our communities tending to the ill and injured, two York Region paramedics have tested positive for the coronavirus.
One has fully recovered and the other is at home recuperating.
It’s one of the points the York Region Media Group learned when we were given the chance to ask paramedics about their experiences during the pandemic on May 26 at their headquarters at 80 Bales Dr. E. in East Gwillimbury, just east of Newmarket near Davis Drive and Woodbine Avenue.
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La Journaliste
Depuis que je collabore avec La Journaliste, mon père me demande à la blague : « Quand est-ce que tu vas écrire un article sur ton petit papa préféré? » Je sais que ça fait fille à papa, mais tsé, mon père, je l’adore… Et je l’assume!
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InfoTel.ca
Brooke Deschenes is lucky to be alive.
The Kelowna woman was riding her bike down Harvey Avenue, near Richter, June 4 when a dump truck turned right, knocked her from her bike and ran her over.
“The truck did not see her… she went right under the wheel and her lower extremities on her right side were crushed,” Ken Boyd, a close friend, said June 8.
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The St. Catharines Standard
A man is dead after the vehicle he was driving plunged into the Welland Canal in Thorold early June 8, while his female passenger was rescued by Niagara Emergency Medical Services paramedics who witnessed the incident.
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The Telegram
The early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic were a time of uncertainty for metro St. John’s advanced care paramedic Mark Jenkins, as they were for many other first responders.
“First when the lockdowns started happening, initially (there was) the sense of just anxiety, a little bit of fear. It was something new. It was unknown. The fact of working in health care and working so closely with people that may have had COVID-19 and the thought of bringing it back to my family caused a lot of anxiety,” said Jenkins, who has a son who is almost eight.
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