CAT Scanner Equipped in an Ambulance

A CAT scanner in the back of a modern ambulance. This is the type of care we are trying to bring to the people of BC.

BC HEROS mission

  • To show British Columbians that no region or community in BC, including the Lower mainland or  Southern Vancouver Island, currently have anything even remotely close to modern, 21st century prehospital care/ambulance service.
  • To make all British Columbians aware that other international EMS jurisdictions, have for over 50 years, benefited from vastly more capable EMS proven EMS best practices.
  • To prove that BC’s 45 year-old EMS model costs BC society far more every year, than it would cost to upgrade it to a modern 21st century EMS model.
  • In light of the recent damning BC Auditor General report, to call on the provincial government to immediately strike a Royal Commission to review all aspects of how the BC Ministry of Health, Adrian Dix minister, chooses to deliver EMS primary and acute care to all areas of the province.
  • To have the government immediately call upon institutions of higher learning to carry out a region-by-region, a universal cost/benefit analysis of BC’s chosen EMS model to definitively determine the true cost to BC society of continuing on with the currently employed, long-outdated, EMS model BC  EHS still chooses to employ.
  • To call upon the BC government to immediately take steps to place 100s more full-time ambulance attendants into rural communities throughout BC, this, along with and at least another 200 additional ambulances which are four wheel driven and have automatic tire chains and use actual snow and ice tires in months have snow.
  • To call upon the BC government to provide paid medical ability/license upgrades all BC EHS ‘Emergency Medical Responders’ as wells as all ‘Basic Life Support/PCP’ attendants (all 3,400 of them) across the province – while on FULL PAY.

 

FOOTNOTE:  To understand why BC HEROS is calling for such drastic and immediate steps and why the province adopted such a highly restrictive EMS model still in use today in BC, we encourage all British Columbians, especially our MLAs, to read the existing Emergency Health Services Act, as well as the actual recommendations made by the 974 Foulkes Commission to the NDP government of day, on which the currently still in affect Emergency Health Service Act is still based. Clearly the legislation was and still is very different from what was actually recommended by the commission’s panel of doctors and experts back in 1974.