B.C. paramedics respond to 96 overdose calls a day in May, highest in a single month over last 5 years

Last month, B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) recorded its highest overdose call volume for one month in the past five years, as paramedics responded to 2,977 calls province-wide — an average of 96 calls per day. 

BCEHS said 803 of those calls were in Vancouver, 315 were in Surrey and 159 were in Victoria.

“No community is immune,” BCEHS said in a tweet. 

The BC Coroners Service said 176 people died of a drug overdose in April, averaging about six deaths

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