‘Heartbreaking Loss’: BC Agency Looks Into Ambulance Call After Infant Death Report

Paramedics and ambulances are seen outside the emergency department at Burnaby Hospital in Burnaby, B.C., May 30, 2022. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

British Columbia’s emergency health service says it is reviewing thecircumstances of the reported death of an infant last week whilewaiting for an ambulance in a small community in the southernInterior, calling it a “heartbreaking loss.”

A statement from BC Emergency Health Services says in response to questions about the death in Barriere that it received a call to respond to a patient at a home in the community north of Kamloops on Thursday.