(photo: Roseway Hospital in Shelburne)
Shelburne Mayor Karen Mattatall fears someone will die unless the province addresses the crisis in rural health care.
She’s referring to a woman who overdosed on fentanyl last Friday evening.
Five ambulances were needed at the scene because several people had to be transported for treatment and assessment.
RCMP officers at the scene administered Naloxone nasal spray, to stabilized the woman until she could get treatment.
Mattatall says the situation for first responders was exacerbated because Roseway’s Hospital’s ER was closed.
But she says that wasn’t the only problem that night.
“Our paramedics were actually backing up Bridgewater, which meant Yarmouth was backing us up. There was only one ambulance in town when this incident happened>”
Mattatall says it also meant that RCMP officers were taken out of Shelburne because the patients had to be transported to Liverpool and Bridgewater.
She says it’s time the province “woke up” and did something about ER closures before someone dies.
