B.C. Emergency Health Services runs the largest pre-hospital emergency response system in Canada — with our paramedics responding to about 1,500 calls every day. We have more than 4,000 employees — paramedics, call-takers and dispatchers, nurses and specialists — of which about 1,600 work full-time.
More than 80 per cent of our calls are in Metro and urban areas, and attended by full-time paramedics.
It means the bulk of our part-time work has traditionally been in rural and remote communities where there are fewer calls for paramedics.
But, that’s about to change.
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