Ontario Regions Face Ambulance Pressures; Province Won’t Release Offload Delay Data

Ontario Regions Face Ambulance Pressures; Province Won’t Release Offload Delay Data
Ambulances are seen at a hospital in Toronto on April 6, 2021. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
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Several Ontario municipalities say their paramedic services are under immense pressure, with worrying stretches of times during which no ambulances are available to respond to calls—but the province doesn’t track the problem.

The government does have data on the hours paramedics spend waiting in emergency rooms to transfer patients to the care of a hospital, which are often a key factor in ambulance availability, but won’t disclose it.