COVID-19 cases, paramedics with Ornge air ambulance and other paramedic services have been working around the clock to transfer patients across the province in order to help manage strained intensive care unit capacity.“There’s nothing we can compare it to.
It is the most busy we have ever been. We have surged up more than 200 per cent in the last two weeks alone,” Justin Smith, chief flight paramedic with Ornge, told Global News.“It is a manageable pace, but for not much longer.