Saskatoon mother and daughter wait 3 hours for help after calling 911
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A Saskatoon mother and her disabled daughter were left waiting for three hours after calling 911 on Wednesday morning.
“At 5:30 a.m. we required an ambulance to assist with my severely disabled daughter.”
That’s from Michelle Linklater, a Saskatoon resident who said it would ultimately take three hours to finally get her daughter Jennica to Saskatoon City Hospital on Wednesday morning.
Jennica Linklater is wheelchair bound, and her mother Michelle said she needs assistance to get her daughter in and out of the house.
She said during that three-hour wait she called 911 multiple times.
“They said, ‘We don’t have any ambulances, they are all tied up at the emergency room.'”
She said first responders eventually showed up and were able to get her daughter into Linklater’s wheelchair-ready vehicle so they could go to the hospital.
“I think this is tragic. I knew emergency rooms were quite busy, but I didn’t know the magnitude of how that impact is going to have a rippling effect, and not for the good.”
She said she now needs to look at other options in case a situation like this happens again, saying she can’t rely on ambulances in the city.
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