The Metropolis of Brandon is happy to announce that further funding for a 3rd main ambulance and fifteen main care paramedics is being acquired for Brandon Hearth & Emergency Providers and the Brandon Police Service Cells Program from Manitoba Shared Well being.
Brandon Hearth & Emergency Providers (BFES) has proudly operated the ambulance service in Brandon since 1917. Though the inhabitants and the decision quantity in Brandon has steadily elevated over time, the Metropolis has been working with solely two main ambulances.
This third ambulance and ten further main care paramedics will enable BFES to have the ability to attend to extra, if not all, calls inside the metropolis, thus not requiring rural ambulances to be reassigned from their area to help in Brandon.
“We’re very happy for the extra funding for a 3rd main ambulance and ten further main care paramedics,” says Brandon Hearth & Emergency Providers Chief Parlow. “Right now’s announcement will make sure that when the residents of Brandon want an ambulance for medical care, that an ambulance might be obtainable. ”
Together with the funding for a 3rd ambulance, Shared Well being has additionally supplied funding for a further 5 paramedics for the Detention Unit at Brandon Police Service.
Brandon Police Service Appearing Chief, Randy Lewis, states “The addition of paramedics in our Detention Unit will release cops who presently spend a big period of time having intoxicated prisoners cleared medically at Brandon Regional Well being Centre Emergency previous to lodging them in our Detention Unit.”
Lewis additionally states that having paramedics working in our Detention Unit will enable for the Brandon Police Service to fulfill greatest observe procedures by offering ongoing monitoring and care of prisoners as much as the time that they’re faraway from the custody of the Police Service.
“The Metropolis of Brandon may be very happy with immediately’s announcement of further funding for the extra ambulance and first care suppliers,” notes Mayor Jeff Fawcett. “Because the Province’s second largest metropolis, we not solely present vital companies to our residents, but in addition to our surrounding area. I wish to thank the previous and present provincial governments for his or her continued partnership in offering vital companies to the residents of Brandon and our surrounding area.”
