The Teamsters are raising concerns about the need for paramedics and emergency medical workers working with private and community-based ambulance operations to be prioritized for COVID vaccination.

Business Agent for the Health Care Division of the Teamsters Local 855 Hubert Dawe says the provincial government has not yet identified rural emergency medicine providers in their priority vaccine roll-out plan.

Dawe says paramedics and other emergency medical workers in rural areas deserve the same protection as those in the public service.

The union represents 200 paramedics, EMRs, and private ambulance company dispatchers in ten separate companies across the province.