The BC Ambulance Service has been seeing a lot of use in its Low Acuity Transfer Bus.
This is where patients get transported to the hospital in Prince George for day surgeries or treatments.
Superintendent Craig Parnell says this is for people who live on the West line.
“That’s Burns Lake, Fort St. James and Vanderhoof to Prince George,” says Parnell, “for diagnostic appointments not available at the community facilities, while the unit has regular seats, it also have wheelchair accessibility and is staffed by BCEAS paramedics.”
Parnell says they average about nine patients a week with the bus.
He says they are usually getting diagnostic work done or are doing follow up appointments.
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