Volunteers help save pregnant woman from overdose in DTES
Published: Mar 01, 2017
Updated: Mar 01, 2017
CTV News Vancouver
Excerpt
Days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to tour Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, video has emerged of a pregnant woman overdosing in the neighbourhood.
It shows the woman motionless on the ground near Hastings and Main, where she was first tended to by the Street Saviours, a volunteer outreach group that arrived at the scene before first responders.
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