More money for Hamilton ambulance services

The City of Hamilton is injecting more cash into ambulance services in an effort to decrease response times.

More than $800,000 is heading to the troubled service, as response times continue to climb.

The number of code zero incidents, where no ambulances are available to take a call, has risen to record levels, with 32 in the month of June alone.

The city is calling this a seven-month pilot project.

But the president of the union that represents paramedics says the money won’t be enough to fix the service’s problems.