Paramedic concerns

Dear Editor:

RE: Paramedic response times continue to lengthen as call volume grow, March 23.

In response to the article in this last week’s Advertiser, could you maybe interview the paramedics and ask them why this is a growing problem?

I think Ontario residents would be interested in the ridiculous reasons people are calling for paramedics. Our current system requires all ambulance calls to be fulfilled, but the paramedics are not allowed to say “You called an ambulance for that?”

It also seems that our paramedics need to be very concerned about getting sued by some Ontario residents who feel that their “needs” were not adequately met.

Yes our health care system needs work. Blaming everything on the government is easy and the current trend. I don’t believe that is the case when it comes to this issue.

Rene Pulles,
Fergus