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Last updated Jan 31 2006 08:26 AM MST
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There's been a big jump in the number of "red alerts" in Edmonton this year.
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"Red alert" is the Emergency Medical Services term for the situation when there are no available ambulances in the entire city.
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% X- T5 W Z, n* W$ {$ _Last week, a red alert led Capital Health to admit that hospitals can't keep up, meaning ambulances have to wait at emergency until the hospital can take the patient.
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EMS says there were 36 red alerts last year, and nine so far this year – including two Monday afternoon.
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Randy Littlechild, head of the union that represents paramedics, says things are getting worse.
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; i" C; L2 O8 l' C S/ H! W"We're doing everything we can, but the system is falling apart – really and truly – it's not working," Littlechild says. ' I1 \, N+ M3 k: ~+ L
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He says it has come to the point where there has to be an increase of rooms and beds in Edmonton hospitals.
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% a; A0 s4 {8 Z& {( oCapital Health says it will look into making changes to that part of the system. |
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