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Nurse 911 system in Niagara leads to less need for emergency ambulance responses

A rare 911 dispatch service in Ontario’s Niagara Region that includes nurses as part of the team responding to emergency…

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Lifestyle

Paramedics reunite with baby born in back of Ont. ambulance

The birth of a child is challenging under the best circumstances but it was especially difficult for a Mitchell, Ont.,…

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Nova Scotia

N.S. government has twice warned ambulance provider about poor service, says health minister

The Nova Scotia government has issued two warnings in recent months to Emergency Medical Care, the company that has provided ambulance service…

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Health

Quebec is still the only province without a helicopter ambulance system. What’s the hold up?

The lawyer for the family of a seven-month-old baby who might have survived if it hadn’t taken so long to…

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Halifax

No serious injuries when ambulance slides off road onto side in Lunenburg County

There were no serious injuries when an ambulance slid into a ditch in Lunenburg County Tuesday night. RCMP spokesman Const.…

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Halifax

N.S. to train 200 new emergency responders to ease paramedics’ workload, ambulance wait times

Up to 200 emergency medical responders will be trained over the next two years in Nova Scotia to fill a…

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Halifax

‘I could have lost my child’: No ambulance available night Nova Scotia teen’s leg slashed open

It was supposed to be a night of celebration. Cheryl Conrod-Baker’s oldest son had just gotten married and the reception…

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Nova Scotia

Fire chief frustrated by long ambulance wait times

A fire chief in Cumberland County says he’s frustrated by long wait times for ambulances in his area, which have…

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia ambulance service plagued by continuing poor response times: auditor

Nova Scotia A new report says Nova Scotia’s ambulance service is in a “critical state” and isn’t meeting mandated response…

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Halifax

More stories of long ambulance wait times in Nova Scotia signal that health care getting worse, not better – Churchill

Nova Scotia Liberal leader Zach Churchill says three incidents of long ambulance delays in the Annapolis Valley over the past…

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