For the greatest medical system in the world.
Maple Ridge senior waits 15 hours with broken hip for ambulance that never came
When Grant Davey’s mother fell on the back patio of her Maple Ridge home while watering her hanging baskets, she was seriously injured.
The 86-year-old was in a lot of pain and could hardly move. However, she managed to drag herself up the two steps to get inside her home, where she reached her phone and called Davey’s brother for help.
In turn, on that Tuesday, June 29 at about 5:39 p.m., Davey’s brother called 9-1-1 and was told an ambulance was on its way. Then he called Davey.
She was probably a non-racialized anti-vaxxer. (He types sarcastically)
It’s getting to the point of having to go back to the days you load the victim in the back of a pickup or station wagon. But, then you get put in line to wait behind the mildly depressed hypochondriac at the ER.
Sorry lady,we regret to inform you,we at health Canada have spent all your money on Protecting You from The Dread Covid..
Any actual healthcare?
That will be an extra charge..
Also our Union Workers demand you have the courtesy to injure yourself during only the following time periods,to avoid interference with our coffee breaks and private shopping trips..
I wish I could pretend this was sarcasm.
That was during the big heat wave, ambulance service broke down on a widespread basis with a lot of emergency calls, and it has become a big issue that may lead to the firing of the director.
You would think with the left’s hyper awareness of unusual heat, a plan would have been in place when the inevitable heat wave arrived, but it seems to have taken them by surprise.
Nothing a new tax won’t solve I’m sure.
The head of the ambulance assn(or whatever its called) said that although things like this happened they still did a good job”
Every one gets a participation award.
Oz, the bill was for calling and not using the ambulance. I used an ambulance once and was not billed that I know of. I didn’t pay it and have not received a collection notice.
I took a friend to hospital and was advised to use an ambulance. There are medical services available in ambulances. It must be part of the system, at least here in Ontario.
But what happened to that poor lady is unforgivable.
That system is a curse. Or is cursed, or both.
What a POS.
IF they do get a bill they should reply that they will be happy to pay it WHEN the ambulance arrives.
I never received a bill for any ride I took in an ambulance, except when under 65. I paid it and deducted it along with other medical expenses on my Income Tax Return. Over 65 in Alberta, the health care service covers the cost. That’s my experience.
First Nations persons have a habit of using ambulances as taxi services.
My mom was a frequent flyer in that MapleRidge.. she never had more than 1/2 hour wait and it was $85.00 a pop.. But it wasn’t this week, so not sure the diff.. During the heat wave perhaps.. was 44deg for a few days straight in the shade.27 here now.
Boomers are about to find out good and hard how great the system they put in place is. Finally some come uppance for the most selfish generation in history.
Socialism at it’s best Oz.
I was 4 years old when the current system was instituted. Its roots go back to the 50s. Many boomers oppose it . The most selfish generation? Where have you been the last 40 years? Can you point me to a political party or a politician that would countenance abolishing or modifying it? You speak as a child.
Boomers expanded it and entrenched it. Anyway most boomers will die in a socialized hospital he’ll hole and it’s well deserved.
Look FUCKER, I get really sick of Gen-whatevers tarring Boomers with the same brush. Get over yourself, Princess, there are plenty of good conservatives – and yes, even libertarians – among the Boomer generation. Jesus, what a waste of space posts like yours are.
I was 12 when all this crap was initiated. Voting age was 21. Where were you? If you’re all so worked up blaming Boomers for your personal problems of inadequacy, then get involved cancelling anything with Boomers. Have at ‘er. Start with that health care you think we steal from you, then CPP/OAS. Get up off your lazy ass and change it. Nobody is stopping you here. We’ll be long gone by the time any sort of “change” occurs. Learn to speak Chinese, because that’s who you’ll be dealing with by then. They’ll look at you as “body parts”.
Are private ambulances allowed? If not…
Does something prevent local Canadians from organizing local rescue departments in every podunk town as in the US?
Thats the thing of centalized socialism. It kills the local spirit, makes the people passive, wait around for ….something. Instead of personal and local initiative. Same in welfare housing estates and ghettos….and?
My neighbor/friend is a raving socialist who is always touting how our medical system is so much better than the US because everyone gets it for free.And he is quite happy to accept piss poor service(i.e. long wait times)because of that.
Yet he availed himself of a private MRI so he could get attention faster. When I suggested the hypocrasy in his views he just shrugged his shoulders.
But the real kicker came a couple of years ago when his wife was diagnosed with fairly advanced cancer.She died within a month getting NO TREATMENT whatsoever for the cancer except being in a hospice for a couple of weeks.
When he complained to me later about the poor treatment she got I simply said “had she been in the states she would probably still be alive–it may cost more but at least you can get it”. Cruel on my part I know, but I’m so sick and tired of leftist/progressives/socialists/communists who are trying to tear this country apart.
That’s not cruel.
He voted for and supported the joke health care that killed other people.
This time it was just a bit more personal for him.
I used to live in Maple Ridge, its a nice community which has been growing like crazy for the last 25 years or more, and never had enough hospital beds, schools, or other government services. The people who live there are simply farmed for their taxes which are then spent by the government on their pet projects-global warming, daycare, enabling junkies (a particularly big local issue). This is the result.
For the benefit of non-BCers, the Ambulance service are presently bargaining for a new collective agreement and are visiting all kinds of pain (literally) on the taxpayers to make their case, though I doubt this extends to the 24 hour-a-day naloxone service on the Vancouver downtown east side. The executive-a female-has recently been criticized for the service response to our recent killer heatwave. So lots of blame can be heaped on both sides, but the plain fact is politicians have pissed away our taxes on frivolous projects.
The current mania for appeasing aboriginals has attracted the idea of spending billions on surveying “unmarked graves at residential schools”, what possible benefit is that to anyone? Last week Turdeau announced funding for racialized daycare funding in BC, if you are white and have paid taxes-get to the back of the line. Once the plebs demand that tax money be spent on essentials perhaps we can progress.
Anyone that has ever waited in an ER knows what is going on. Ambulance EMTs are required to wait with their patients while they are waiting to be checked in. I’ve watched EMT’s waiting for more than 5 hours in an ER. A hospital ER in canada is a true wonder to behold. I seriously doubt they could be run more inefficiently if that was the goal (and maybe it is). I’d be interested in hearing from an actual working nurse or maybe someone from the private sector what the answer is. I suspect it wouldn’t hurt to get rid of 80% of the managers in a hospital as a start.
My nephew lives in the US. Needed surgery on his shoulder. Saw his GP on a Thursday, had all relative tests done that day in the Docs office, -rays etc. Surgery done the following Tuesday!
So – you pay for Health Insurance there – as if we dont pay here – but THERE you get good service quickly.
My neighbour here in Canucistan needed knee surgery – waited a year plus and then they F’ed it up and had to have a redo months later!
I will take the US system any day thank you very much,
It’s socialized medical care, the system controls costs by rationing (limiting) service instead of by letting people buy what they want at the price they are willing to or can afford to pay.
Lots of horror stories and some good comments. I heard a few years back that a man that transported his wife in his car, to the local hospital as she had broken her leg. The staff at the ER advised him to call an ambulance. She was right outside the ER, but they would not go out and get her, the ambulance staff were required for that. He called, and the ambulance attended after a period of time, and moved his wife into the ER. Unfortunately I don’t remember what Province this was, but I bet he got a bill for the Ambulance attendance. I also remember Chretien and the Liberals fighting hard to keep a user pay system out of Canada year ago. For all the expense and it’s faults, the US system is way better. I’ve always thought that those who could afford to pay for a private clinic, even here in our “Free” health care system, would then reduce the waiting list for those that could only use the “Free” system, therefor shortening a little, the wait list. But oh no, the Chretien Libs couldn’t have that. That would have removed some of their control over the peasants. What an effing disgrace this Country has become! Everything the Libs touch is turned into a disaster, and the idiots back east still vote for em!