Reading Time: 5 minutes Former southern Alberta farmer/rancher remembered as first pilot for HALO Air Ambulance, flying numerous missions and saving lives in rural communities.
Tributes soar for HALO founding pilot Grant Fletcher
Original HALO pilot remembered for lives saved in numerous rural southern Alberta farming communities
Ambulance shortage leaves Alberta’s rural residents at risk
Increasingly, the closest ambulance is ‘an hour away,’ say both paramedic association and union
Reading Time: 5 minutes The paramedic service is stretched to the breaking point and increasingly, there are no ambulances available when a rural resident suffers a medical emergency, say officials representing those first responders. “There’s 60 per cent more calls for 911 today than we were seeing about 10 years ago,” said Mike Parker, president of the Health Sciences […] Read more
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