Stars Air Ambulance is seeing a continued rise in emergency calls as we head into the warmer summer months.

Stars received eighty-four calls across the province during the month of May, well above the fifty calls the organization received in April. Spokesmen Cam Heke says Twenty-four of those emergency calls came from South Central Manitoba.

"May included twelve motor vehicle collisions, actually some very serious and fatal ones. We had three general traumas like burn injuries and falls, than there were another nine calls for medical emergencies like stroke, heart attack, serious respiratory and other medical emergencies of that nature. May long weekend this year, pretty much the first warmer long weekend held some very tragic accidents. These accidents were extremely difficult of course for those that were directly involved, however even for our long time trained paramedics and staff these tragedies take their toll."

Heke added that an open house held at the STARS base in Winnipeg during the month of May provided the perfect opportunity to celebrate Paramedics Awareness Week and seen over two-hundred attendees including people that were once STARS patients.

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