Acting chief of Hastings-Quinte Emergency Services John O’Donnell shows off the new decal design on local ambulances in June 2015. (Photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)
It looks like there will be no trial project for an extra ambulance base in a western portion of Prince Edward County this summer.
Last summer, a trial ambulance base was set up at the Wellington fire hall and a proposal had been made to possibly trying one at Consecon in 2016.
In a letter to the County, Acting Chief of Hastings-Quinte paramedic services John O’Donnell says that, during the six-month trial at Wellington there was only one month that saw a decrease in ambulance response times, and for most months response times increased.
O’Donnell says the ambulance travel time increased 37% and fuel costs jumped by $1,800.
He says that, in view of the results of the Wellington trial, he didn’t “see the benefit to another trial” and that an ambulance base in Consecon would incur a “significant increase in mileage.”
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