People die as Cabinet dally

PEOPLE are dying because of government failure to pass legislation that would allow ambulance crews administer life-saving drugs.

People die as Cabinet dally
Fri, 07 Mar, 2003 - 00:00
Catherine Shanahan

Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) are unable to carry out advanced life-support procedures four years after a government strategy urged legislation to allow them do so.

The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC), a government agency set up in 2000 to oversee the development of the ambulance service, said we are 20 years behind our UK and US equivalents.

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