Member Statement (26 March 2026)

From Hansard (26 March 2026)

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Air Ambulance Provides Care for 80 Years

Travis Keisig: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last month our province celebrated an incredible milestone in public safety and health care. The Saskatchewan air ambulance has served eight decades of providing critical care transport in Saskatchewan.

SAA [Saskatchewan air ambulance] operates four medically equipped airplanes with services available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, completing about 1,500 patient transfers annually. Flights are staffed by specially trained air medical crews that include critical care flight nurses and critical care paramedics. This makes air ambulance the oldest formally recognized non-military medical transport program in North America.

Eighty years and 78,500 patients later and the service is still going strong. One of those patients, Mr. Speaker, was my daughter, two days old, being rushed from Shaunavon to Royal University Hospital NICU [neonatal intensive care unit] in Saskatoon. Everything worked out well, but only due to the team at Saskatchewan air ambulance providing that critical service across the province.

On behalf of the Government of Saskatchewan and my family, thank you to the pilots, medical professionals, engineers, and more who keep this absolutely vital air ambulance service operating for 80 years. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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