Vital medications needed to save lives in the back of an ambulance are in short supply. A nationwide drug shortage is impacting paramedics in Southwest Florida.

Emergency personnel are working a wreck involving an ambulance and another vehicle in Lynchburg.

A patient is put into an ambulance at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Viera. / Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY The clinic, built in 1999, has expanded to more than 135,000 square feet with 335 employees. That includes 60 physicians, four dentists and five psychiatrists.