‘Terrace B.C. Ambulance Ser-
vice Report from Wednesday,
April 29 to Tuesday, May 5 -

What began as a very busy
week ‘tapered off to become an.
opportunity for tackling a few of
those routine maintenance items
on May-4 and 5. Idle time is-.good
news ‘for paramedics: it‘ means
people are not sick or busy injur-
ing themselves. - ae

. That was not the situation on -

April 29, however. At 6:30. a.m.
_ paramedics were called to an area

residence but there was nothing
they could do for a -man-in his_
late 40's. He was pronounced -
dead on arrival at Mills Memorial ©
Hospital. It is believed he died of

natural causes. ~~ Dae,
A Nass Valley logging acci-
dent generated three emergency
responses for Terrace paramedics:
the first to transport a paramedic

to the :Terrace-Kitimat airport; |

the second to fly to the logging
site by helicopter and treat the
accident victim for a broken leg
and possible spinal injuries,
before flying the victim to Mills
Memorial Hospital; and the third
to move the. victim from the heli-
copter into emergency and trans-
port the paramedic back to the

station. The victim, a man in his.

mid-30’s, remains in-hospital.
The final call of the day came
shortly after the supper hour
when a Terrace woman in her
early 70’s suffering general weak-
ness was transported to hospital

for treatment. Ss

‘Terrace paramedics headed
for Stewart at 6:30 a.m. April 30
and met a Stewart ambulance
part-way to transfer the victim of
a motor vehicle accident to Mills
Memorial Hospital. The victim, a
man in his mid-20's, received
initial treatment at Stewart Gen-
eral Hospital for suspected spinal

‘Memorial Hospital. .  -

: . - ment. And at about 10 p.m. a two-
‘. ‘year-old Terrace boy suffering a

injuries before being transferred
to Terrace. The only other call

that’ day was to Terraceview —

Lodge, where a resident suffered
possible rib injuries in an acciden-

tal fall. The resident was returned

to Terraceview about an hour
later after being treated at Mills

The first call on Saturday,

May 2, came in around: noon, A

man in his mid-40’s suffering
severe abdominal pain was trans-
ported to Mills Memorial, He was

- transported later in the day to the
Terrace-Kitimat: airport for a .
flight to Vancouver for further

treatment. _
In the late afternoon, a
woman in ‘her early 30’s was

transported to hospital after she .
‘fainted in a local retail establish-

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high fever was taken to Mills

Memorial Hospital.
On-call .paramedics were -
called out twice early Sunday
morning. Both calls were
cancelled enroute by the BCAS |
dispatch centre, who later deter-.
mined from persons at the scene
that treatment was not required.:
- The first call.came at around

‘1 am. following a.report from a

local service station that there
was a person bleeding. The second
call was phoned in from a Terrace
residence at about 3 a.m. as a
result of activities by the same
person.

The only other.calls for the
week came in on Sunday, May 3,
the first in the morning for a man
in his early 60's suffering abdomi-
nal pain, the second in the early
afternoon’ to. transfer a. patient
from the airport.to Mills Memor-
ial following medical treatment in
the lower mainland.

FAX (604) 627-1184

Terrace Review — May 8, 1992