In the words of a Kansas ambulance service director, surging demand from COVID-19 patients and a shortage of EMS personnel to handle calls “is about to get critical.” Another responding to a statewide EMS survey said this of the pandemic in Kansas: “Very concerned if there are serious trauma events or patients with critical time-sensitive illness, there will be no options for these patients to receive critically needed care.” And, one more piece of insight: “I am concerned that we will be in situations very soon where we will not be able to find a receiving hospital for our patients.”
Source: Kansas Reflector
