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Ambulance mix-up put possible stroke patient at risk

Nurse on scene transported the patient to meeting place, but the ambulance blew past them

By Andrea DeMeer
BCLocalNews.com

PRINCETON, British Columbia — A mix-up involving paramedics caused chaos for an area family last Wednesday morning.

BC Ambulance Services has launched a full inquiry into how a critical message about meeting a patient and nurse enroute to Princeton General Hospital was missed, resulting in paramedics being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“We have some high level understanding that some miscommunication occurred,” Linda Lupini, executive vice president of Provincial Health Services Authority and British Columbia Emergency Health Services, told The Spotlight in a telephone interview Monday.

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