WestView Medivac landing pad 'situation'
Heard a 'story' today, that apparently a young boy with a head injury, recently reported to our Westview Hospital in Stony Plain. Doctors @ the Children's Hospital requested/activated STARS air ambulance - to head to WestView to pick up the lad.
Only to be informed that, "The WestView Medivac landing pad was/has been UNserviceable for years and that STARS cannot land there.
The lad had to be transported by road, with the obvious negative implications.
Can anyone lend credence to this situation?
Which raises the question, [if this is true] what the hell is going on with our tax dollars?
We apparently can afford to shell out UCP money to re-brand and privatize our ambulance services, pay for private for profit hockey castles, and enrich-the-rich, but cannot maintain our Medivac pads at area hospitals.
What-the-what!
