A consultants report looking into non-emergency land ambulance patient transfers in the Kenora District shows serious regulatory and funding irregularities compared to southern Ontario.
The report contains 24-recommendations and was drafted following feedback from everyone but the provincial government.
Director of Emergency Management Services Andrew Tickner says they support most of the recommendations.
One of them includes the operation of a service between Kenora and Winnipeg three-days a week.
Others include not requiring nurses to do transfers.
He says all of it relies on some sort of funding from the Ministry of Health.
KDSB Chair Barry Baltessen says he’s hoping the report opens the governments eyes.
He says this is a long standing issue that needs to be resolved, and they want to be treated the same as everywhere else in the province.
