Ontario is in plans to rebuild the ambulance system and also to redirect some of the patients with less pressing needs to the places other than the emergency rooms. The government has announced on Monday that the new Ontario’s ambulance system would start rolling out in the March 2018 and also would better prioritize the calls based on patient need.

It also said that more than one million patients have been transported by the land or air ambulance in the year 2015, and only one per cent of them have been most critically ill and also required immediate emergency transportation.

The Liberal government said that it is in plans to update the Ambulance Act to allow the paramedics to provide on-scene treatment and also refer patients to the primary care or community care, instead of the hospitals, if appropriate.

The government said that increased flexibility would reduce the unnecessary trips to the emergency departments, decreasing overcrowding and also easing wait times.

But the paramedics with Canadian Union of Public Employees said that diverting and also triaging the patients who call 911 for the emergency medical care away from hospitals is full of risks. The paramedics said in a statement that they believe the proposed changes will result in “negative outcomes for patients.”

“To improve response times, what’s needed is increasing the capacity of ambulance services to put more paramedics on the road,” said CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn.

“That’s something that would cost much less than putting paramedics on firetrucks and save more lives.”

It is estimated that fully implementing the system will take two years.

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