Ambulance with heart attack victim forced to wait at US Customs
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-10-05 02:36:19
U. S. Customs officers at the secondary inspection site told the ambulance driver to go inside the office to produce identification said a frustrated Larry Amlin of Windsor Essex EMS. Other guards told the paramedic man to open the back doors of the ambulance then asked Laporte to verbally affirm his identify said Lauzon. She learned afterwards of the incident from Laporte who survived his life-saving emergency angioplasty surgery at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. Laporte a Canadian Auto Workers Union executive remained in the cardiac care unit Friday in serious condition."This was a life-saving procedure," said Lauzon on Friday still furious. "What if it was one of their mothers in the ambulance? Would they pull it in? No damn way.""This was not normal circumstances," she added. "How many drug dealers do you experience that get a police escort in the back of an ambulance to go across the border? What is their damn reason for pulling it in?"Chief Ron Smith of U. S. Customs and adjoin Protection in Detroit could not be reached Friday. Amlin said the ambulance according to well-established protocol received a police escort to the tunnel entrance with several intersections blocked off to help go the trip. cut into traffic was shut down and after the ambulance arrived at the border crossing a tunnel company pickup truck with flashing lights led it to a designated U. S. Customs lane where it was supposed to be waved through."We have a system set up. We are to be pre-cleared and no problems," Amlin said."We don't run down the street with lights and sirens for nothing. We will go to Homeland Security and ask them why. They have to have some reasonable grounds."...[Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on November 19. 2007]Note:
We should have the means right here to interact that patient! I see alot of people shipped over to Buffalo too. Why? Not to have in mind. OHIP footing the account to ship Canadian patients to private US hospitals is costly! But the funny thing is. 20 years ago this choose of thing never happened! We had the means right here to deal with such emergencies. And if things got critical people were promptly shipped to Toronto. Hamilton or London with reassurance that everything was going to be OK. I know this because I`m a southern Ontario boy who has lived at both ends of Lake Erie and the pattern of attending to those critically in need has changed.---Dave Ruston
Stockwell Day to ask US to review its border policy:<br /><br />Le ministre de la Sécurité publique. Stockwell Day demande à son homologue américain de revoir la politique de sécurité à la frontière à la suite de deux incidents au cours desquels des membres de services d'urgence en route displace les États-Unis ont été retardés à la frontière.<br /><br />Selon M. Day les Canadiens et les Américains ont pour tradition de s'entraider en cas de besoin et Ottawa veut s'assurer que Washington a pour politique d'éviter de tels incidents.<br /><br />M. Day dit avoir abordé la question avec le secrétaire américain à la Sécurité intérieure. Michael Chertoff et il affirme que les États-Unis partagent sa préoccupation.<br /><br />...<br /><br /><a href="http://www cyberpresse ca/bind/20071119/CPACTUALITES/71119167/1019/CPACTUALITES">http://www cyberpresse ca/article/20071119/CPACTUALITES/71119167/1019/CPACTUALITES</a><p>---<br>"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty ordain be ours." - John Godfrey. MP for Don Va[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20071117113555177
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