It looks like Manitoba isn’t the only province with concerns around ambulance service.
Grant Manz, who lives 40 kilometres west of Yorkton, waited over an hour for an ambulance to show up while he suffered from a severe heart attack last week.
His wife drove to the intersection of Highway 47 and 52 and called the ambulance; only to be told at that time, they didn’t have an ambulance to send out right then.
The bad weather conditions prevented STARS Air Ambulance from being an option.
Manz arrived in Yorkton Hospital only to be transferred to Regina and is now at home recovering.
Dennis Nelson, owner of Yorkton and Area Crestvue Ambulance Services noted they have a busy service and do a lot of transfers.
“There are times we’ve got two and three units driving back and forth to Regina every day.”
Two of the ambulances are funded by the Saskatchewan Health Authority but the other two and the first response unit are not.
