Families benefit from dedicated air ambulance
Channel: GovernmentofBC
Date: 31/08/2011

Premier Christy Clark announced that dedicated helicopter air ambulance service will begin serving the Central Interior immediately to ensure faster service for critically ill or injured Interior patients, leading to better outcomes. Last summer's trial period has shown that a dedicated helicopter air ambulance service improves patient care.

This announcement comes after an extensive evaluation of the eight-week trial period that occurred last summer where dedicated helicopter air ambulance service was in place for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. The BC Ambulance Service's (BCAS) Critical Care Transport helicopter team was deployed a total of 62 times, transporting patients to hospitals in Kamloops, Kelowna and Vancouver 33 times over the two-month period.

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