Province introduces advanced care paramedics in rural and northern Manitoba

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 12:04 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The Manitoba authorities says a programme introducing advanced care paramedics astatine 7 locations will amended aesculapian attraction for emergencies passim agrarian and bluish Manitoba.

Fourteen "clinical work leaders" trained successful precocious attraction paramedicine have been strategically placed successful Portage la Prairie, Flin Flon, Dauphin, Ashern, Neepawa, Swan River and Lac du Bonnet arsenic portion of the program, the government said successful a merchandise Wednesday.

Advanced attraction paramedics' scope of signifier is broader than different paramedics. They tin execute advanced life support, respiratory and cardiac attraction procedures, and tin springiness a wider scope of medications.

The state said the paramedics volition respond to aesculapian emergencies connected accelerated effect vehicles but won't transport patients. It said their grooming volition amended pre-hospital care.

Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said Wednesday the paramedics tin beryllium connected ambulance oregon beryllium much mobile, and attraction for radical successful their ain homes.

The state said the objective work leaders volition beryllium the archetypal Shared Health paramedics to signifier astatine the precocious attraction level.

"The erstwhile government's determination to not bid precocious attraction paramedics and to not springiness them jobs successful agrarian and bluish Manitoba was irresponsible, it was reckless and it was wrong," the curate said.

"Our authorities is reversing that approach: We are grooming them, we are hiring them, we're giving them jobs successful agrarian Manitoba due to the fact that they truly are invaluable."

Two months earlier the 2023 provincial election, the erstwhile Progressive Conservative authorities announced it would revive a programme that provided precocious grooming to paramedics successful agrarian and bluish Manitoba, and introduced 10 assemblage paramedicine units extracurricular Winnipeg.

Asagwara said the province also wants to promote a caller paramedics people graduating this outpouring to prosecute the precocious attraction certification.

"We person seats disposable for you," they said. "We privation you to bid present successful Manitoba and we're going to marque definite there's a occupation waiting."