60 new full-time paramedics are to be hired this fall, is what Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen promised yesterday in Brandon.
Approximately 24 of those positions will be hired for Prairie Mountain Health.
Then several hundred more are to be hired in the province over the coming years.
This will cost the provincial government $2.4 million and then crease to $5 million as more paramedics are hired.
The province will continue to go ahead with phasing out 23 low-call EMS stations and replacing them with five new regional sites.
