Terrace B.C. Ambulance
Service Report from Wednesday,
March 4 to Tuesday, March 10.

There are no injury-related
motor vehicle accidents to report
during the past week. Terrace
paramedics responded to a total of
17 calls.

There were  three-injury
related incidents on March 4. A
youth complaining of a sore neck
from an unknown cause was
transported to Mills Memorial
Hospital. A Kitimat youngster on
a school outing was taken to hos-
pital with minor injuries following
a spill at Shames Mountain, and
a man in his 30’s was transported
to Mills after suffering a possible
fracture during a men’s league
hockey game.

The only other trauma-related
incident during the week occurred
on March 6 when a worker suf-
fered a chest injury in an indus-
trial accident. The injury was not
believed to be serious.

A total of four persons suffer-
ing various symptoms were taken
to Mills Memorial during the
week, On March 7 there was a
complaint of a migraine headache,

and later the same day anelderly —

lady was taken to hospital suffer-
ing chest pains. On March 9 there
was a second complaint of chest
pains, and on March 10 a local
resident suffering from
hyperventilation was transported
to hospital.

Ambulance transfers in and
out of Mills Memorial Hospital
during the week totalled nine. On
March 4, a patient returning from
medical treatment in the lower
mainland was transported by
ambulance from Prince Rupert
after the aircraft was unable to
land in Terrace. Later the same
day, a Masset resident was more
fortunate and was transported to

hospital from the Terrace airport
following a successful landing.
A local resident was trans-

ported to Prince George on March

5 for a diagnostic CT scan, and on
March 6 a Prince Rupert resident
was transported to Terrace for
medical treatment and returned
to Prince Rupert later the same
day.

On March 8, a patient return-
ing from the lower mainland was
transported to Mills Memorial.
There was a single local transfer
on March 9. And on March 10,
two expectant mothers were
transferred to Mills Memorial
Hospital from the Dease Lake
area. .

There was only one incident
in which Terrace paramedics

_ responded to a call and treatment

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