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Mayors review ambulance call report
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
The City of Ottawa owes a big debt to the United Counties of Prescott-Russell for ambulance call service. The question that counties council would like answered is how long Prescott-Russell can keep up the pace. The situation has gotten to the point that Warden Guy Desjardins of the United Coun- ties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) took the issue up with Premier KathleenWynne during her recent visit to the Prescott-Russell region. “It’s all very well to help our neighbours,” saidWardenDesjardins, during an interview following the Nov. 9 UCPR committee of the whole session, “but there is a limit.” Michel Chrétien, emergency services director for the United Counties of Prescott- Russell (UCPR), presented counties council with a power-point summary report on the inter-municipal ambulance call situation between the UCPR and the City of Ottawa and also between the United Counties of Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry (UCSDG) and the City of Cornwall. All the ambulance services within the Eastern Ontario region are part of the inter- municipal assistance and dispatch program for emergency services, as allowed for under the provincial Ambulance Act. The Act also stipulates responsibilities for reimbursing use of another region’s ambulance service and also each area’s responsibility for safe- guarding and providing ambulance service for its own residents. The problem is that both, the City of Ottawa and the City of Cornwall, are get- tingmore benefit out the arrangement than either the UCPR or the UCSDG. While the inter-service agreement allows for the UCPR and the UCSDG to ask either Ottawa or Cor- nwall to dispatch their ambulance units when the Prescott-Russell or SDG services are swamped with calls, Chrétien’s summary report shows that Prescott-Russell is less likely to need either Ottawa or Cornwall to loan out one of their ambulances.The report shows that the number of inter-service calls fromOttawa for UCPR ambulance has more
Toutes les semaines, des ambulances partent de la caserne d’Embrun et d’ailleurs dans Prescott et Russell pour répondre à des appels sur le territoire d’Ottawa. Selon un rapport présenté la semaine dernière aux maires siégeant au conseil des Comtés unis de Prescott et Russell, les ambulances de Prescott Russell auraient répondu à quelque 750 appels sur le territoire d’Ottawa, entre janvier et septembre 2016, alors que les services paramédicaux d’Ottawa ne seraient intervenus qu’à une centaine de reprises dans Prescott et Russell. —photo Samantha Latreille.
than doubled during the past ninemonths, this compared to the same time period last year. There is also a concern about late pay- ment from the City of Ottawa to reimburse the UCPR for the use of its ambulance ser- vice when all Ottawa units are otherwise occupied. According to the report, Pres- cott-Russell ambulances have responded to 757 calls in Ottawa while Ottawa has only responded to 106 calls in Prescott-Russell. Each call to Ottawa costs $649. An agree- ment, which allowed the United Counties to retrieve nearly $720 000 between 2006 and
2015, ended earlier this year and no new agreement has been negociated. That was also brought up during themee- ting with Wynne and the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) has also sent a brief to the provincial government about the matter. Warden Desjardins expressed concern that if the situation does not change, Prescott-Russell residents could end up paying a heavy price. “Things will come to a point where we have an emergency and all our ambulances are inOttawa,” Desjardins said. “Something’s got to be done.”
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