The first-ever Ontario Medal for Paramedic Bravery will be presented to paramedics from all over the province by the government of Ontario. The medal is given to paramedics who have shown great bravery by putting their own lives in danger to save others’.
In a ceremony this evening at Queen’s Park, the Honorable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, will award medals to ten paramedics. Ontario’s paramedics will receive a medal for their efforts for the first time this year.
“As Lieutenant Lead representative, I have seen direct the amazing magnanimity and grit of people on call,” said the Noteworthy Elizabeth Dowdeswell. ” Although it is commonly stated that our time is uncertain, few Ontarians actually experience uncertainty in their daily work lives in the same way that paramedics do. Before their movements start, they don’t have the foggiest idea where they will be dispatched, under what conditions, or how they will be approached to help. I would like to express my gratitude to the province of this year’s exceptional award recipients for their dedication, bravery, and devoted service.
Beneficiaries are perceived for their singular demonstrations of exceptional courage, including moving a crashed plane to save travelers inside, plunging to the lower part of Lake Ontario to protect a suffocated man, grasping a self-destructive man on a parkway edge, swimming an oblivious bluff jumper to somewhere safe and secure, saving other specialists on call during a gas line blast, and protecting laborers from an imploded constructing.
“As we observe Paramedic Administrations Week, I’m respected to perceive the primary Ontario Decoration for Paramedic Boldness beneficiaries for their fortitude safeguarding individuals of this region even with grave gamble and risk,” said Clergyman Jones. ” First responders put their duty to Ontarians and their duty to serve first every day. Our government is pleased to recognize these paramedics for their significant contributions to community safety. They are the very best of Ontario.
While these decoration beneficiaries have been chosen for their demonstrations of exceptional magnanimity, every paramedic in Ontario significantly affects the wellbeing and security of individuals across the region.
“The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs (OAPC) is thrilled to have contributed to the campaign to establish the Paramedic Medal of Bravery. Today is a groundbreaking day as these are the very first paramedics to be given the Ontario Decoration for Paramedic Dauntlessness hoisting the praiseworthy degree and regard for their exceptional demonstrations of boldness and the dangers they confronted,” said Boss Michael Sanderson, Leader of the OAPC. ” As we observe Paramedic Administrations Week and its subject of variety in paramedicine, we’d likewise prefer to make a move to perceive our different power of paramedics and their unprecedented devotion to serving the numerous novel networks all through Ontario.”
