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COVID hospitalizations forecast to increase, as BA.5 subvariant continues to circulate in Hamiltonĭarryl Wilton, president of the Ontario Paramedic Association, said "hospitals have been facing an unprecedented staffing and bed crisis." He said in a statement to CBC on Wednesday there is a physician, hospital and long-term care bed shortage.

Strain on Hamilton, Niagara area hospitals continues due to latest COVID-19 wave and staffing shortages.

12, an ambulance - from Orangeville, Ont., in Dufferin County - had to respond to a call from Dundas, Ont., in Hamilton, about an hour away.

James Jovanovic, president of the paramedics' union, CUPE Local 2974, said emergency services were in and out of code black alerts that Wednesday.Īlso on Oct. 12, with wait times for paramedics of up to 50 minutes. Paramedics in Windsor were facing code black alerts on Oct. Ottawa paramedics reported 750 Level Zeroes on July 21, in the 500 calls for paramedics on that day, and about 10 per cent of them were tied up at a hospital longer than three hours. These incidents aren't limited to the Hamilton area. There were 24 code zero incidents alone from Oct. "We're almost gonna be functioning at a Third World level of ambulance service, I hate to say," said Mario Posteraro, president of Local 256 (Brant County) of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).Īs of Wednesday, based on data CBC received from the chief director of Hamilton Paramedic Service (HPS), Michael Sanderson, the number of code zeroes has grown steadily all year, with at least one nearly every week since April. The number of Hamilton-area code zero situations - when there is only one or no ambulances available for emergency calls - has more than tripled compared to all of 2021, according to new data.Īlso known as level zeroes or code blacks, there have been 334 of them in Hamilton this year.