BC Ambulance Service

BC AMBULANCE SERVICE provides public ambulance service under the authority of the Emergency Health Services Commission of the provincial Ministry of Health. The service was created in 1974 to rationalize emergency pre-hospital health services that were being supplied by a variety of commercial operators. As of 2009 the BCAS handled about 525,000 calls annually and employed 3,983 full- and part-time personnel, many of whom were trained at the Paramedic Academy at the JUSTICE INSTITUTE OF BC. The...

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