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By Cam Lee

Paramedic Services Week

Paramedic Services Week in Saskatchewan focuses on work done on the front lines

May 27, 2020 | 12:00 PM

This week marks a chance to honour paramedics.

Paramedic Services Week runs through May 30 across the country, and this year’s theme is Pandemic: Paramedics on the Front Line.

“[Paramedic Services Week] demonstrates the important role that paramedics play on the front lines of the health care system always, and especially during the pandemic,” Melfort Ambulance manager Wayne Therres told northeastNOW.

Therres said paramedics are often the early point of contact in the public arena during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they are also running toward potential risks associated with the pandemic when they arrive at a scene.

The week gives a chance to highlight the role paramedics play both during a pandemic and outside of it, and an opportunity to say ‘thank you,’ Therres said.

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Therres said the need for paramedics continues to be strong. Many people move on from being a ‘transport’ paramedic to other roles in the same field.

The week also provides an opportunity to help recruit people interested in the field, but Therres said it’s all about highlighting those working right now.

“They do a wonderful job every day of the year with what they do, in often very stressful situations, in all kinds of weather, all times of the day, it just doesn’t matter, those people are there ready for you 24/7,” Therres said.

A Paramedics Services Chiefs of Saskatchewan media release stated the province’s ground paramedics travel over 7 million kilometres annually, while responding to over 130,000 calls.

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