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Montreal-area paramedics have a new dispatch system. They fear it's putting patients at risk | CBC Accessibility

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CBC News spoke with five paramedics who say they’ve been sent out to respond to 911 calls unnecessarily — either because the call had already been handled by another team and reappeared in the system, or because several ambulances were dispatched to the same call. Urgences-santé, meanwhile, insists there’s been no impact on patient care since the system was implemented.

Montreal-area paramedics have a new dispatch system. They fear it's putting patients at risk | CBC Accessibility Montreal-area paramedics have a new dispatch system. They fear it's putting patients at risk | CBC Accessibility Loaded Montreal Montreal-area paramedics have a new dispatch system. They fear it's putting patients at risk CBC News spoke with five paramedics who say they’ve been sent out to respond to 911 calls unnecessarily — either because the call had already been handled by another team and reappeared in the system, or because several ambulances were dispatched to the same call.

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