Emergency Medical Service union leaders last week praised Mayor de Blasio’s plan to add 50 ambulance tours in Queens and The Bronx, but they called for greater investment in the system.
In his executive budget, the Mayor proposed spending $5 million in the fiscal year that begins in July to set up 34 new tours in Queens and 16 in The Bronx, where response times are among the highest in the city. The ambulances would be on the street in January 2017; another $9.8 million would be spent on EMS in Fiscal Year 2018.
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