Mayor de Blasio’s preliminary budget would add 15 new permanent ambulance tours and $5.4 million in emergency medical pilot programs, prompting praise but some frustration from the president of the Emergency Medical Service officers’ union.
The ranks of EMS supervisors are “deeply, deeply understaffed,” District Council 37 Local 3621 President Vincent Variale said in an interview last week, though he was pleased with the planned spending to bring down response times.
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