I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT.......no Medical Helicopter??? Quebec is NOT a SMALL PLACE!
Really, Montreal alone must have a few
“I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT.......no Medical Helicopter??? Quebec is NOT a SMALL PLACE!”
http://www.canada.com/news/actress+death+highlights+lack+medical+helicopter/1411393/story.html
No medical copter available to peasants. If a politician (or somebody connected) fell ill, a military copter would be dispatched.
Heck, we’ve had two life flights recently just to save perps shot during the commission of their crime in our sleepy part of Florida. None in the whole darned province? Or couldn’t they find one with bilingual flight controls?
"After she was stabilized, Richardson was transferred to a Montreal trauma centre by ambulance, because, unlike most provinces, Quebec has no emergency helicopter system. The trip took about one hour while a helicopter ride would have carried her to Montreal in 15 minutes.Trauma specialists have been warning of this lack of service for years, saying it could lead to unnecessary deaths.
"This is like not having a fire department in a community," said Dr. Tarek Razek, head of the trauma team at the McGill University Health Centre.
WTF...??? Do you realize how effin' BIG the Province of Quebec is....??? It's THREE TIMES the size of FRANCE and nearly even times the size of Great Britain!!!
My G*d. It is absolutely unconscionable that Canada's largest province doesn't have an actual medical helicopter for its hospitals. The logistics involved simply dictate that a province that gigantic must have an emergency medical air transport.
Hell, our sorry little town has a helo for med purposes! Or one can be here from Birmingham, AL quickly.
apparantly the ambulance showed up but was sent away
MONTREAL–Actor Natasha Richardson was driven by ambulance from a hospital in Ste-Agathe to a Montreal trauma centre, a trip that took about one hour, because Quebec is the only province that doesn't have a network of helicopter air ambulances in place.
The Quebec government has been studying the lack of air ambulances for months, and the chief of trauma at the McGill University Health Centre warned of the problem at a recent conference.
No Cat Scan at the first hospital!!!!
Seems like one on every street corner here in LA. I literally walk across the street from my office to get the last two I had. Medical equipment is too “new fangled” for backwards Canadian medicine.