Ambulance Services Maintained As Paramedics Help KMHC
Written by Paul Graif on 22 March 2022
There has been an increase in cases of COVID-19 in all three units of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center (KMHC). It is due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. According to Executive Director Lisa Westaway, all of the patients are said to be doing very well. However, the number of cases is still expected to rise in the coming days.
Visitation remains closed to all, with exceptions made for natural caregivers.
Some staff has been impacted as well. Several Paramedics from the Kahnawake Fire Brigade are working shifts at the KMHC.
“They were requested again to help out at the inpatient to assist the nurses yesterday for the week,” said David Scott, the Chief of the Kahnawake Fire Brigade. “They requested a week again from seven in the morning to 11 at night so we filled as many spots as we can with the paramedics. They need help again and that’s what we’re here for.”
Scott says that will not affect ambulance response times in the community.
“It will never affect the operation of our ambulances,” he said. “That was the first point that was put out to all the paramedics, that the ambulance schedule has to be maintained 24 hours, seven days a week and it will not affect our response at all.”
