Air ambulance advocacy group wants medevac stationed in central N.L.
The call from Eugene Nippard, chair of Air Ambulance Medical Transport Advocacy Group, comes after 73-year-old Clifford Russell spent nearly 30 hours lying on an exam table at a community nursing station waiting for a medivac.
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Posted: Apr 18, 2021 2:53 PM NT | Last Updated: April 18
Eugene Nippard is president of Newfoundland and Labrador s Air Ambulance Medical Transport Advocacy Group.(Heather Gillis/CBC)
Eugene Nippard, chair of the province s Air Ambulance Medical Transport Advocacy group, is calling on government to address inefficiencies in the provincial air ambulance system and station a medevac team in central Newfoundland.
With their father on life support, a Labrador family calls for review of air ambulance system
A family in Labrador is calling for better access to health care and a systemic review of air ambulance service for people living along the coast, following an ordeal that put their father on life support.
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Posted: Apr 13, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 13
Howard Russell s son, Clifford Russell, says his father waited for a medevac for almost 36 hours. (Submitted by Mallory Harrigan)
A Labrador family is calling for systemic change to the province s air ambulance system following an ordeal that left their father on life support, after he waited almost 36 hours for medical transportation.
Bankole: We all should live by Benny Napoleon s commitment to speak truth to power
Bankole Thompson
Benny Napoleon wanted to be mayor. That would have marked a crown jewel in his long and distinguished career.
But the Wayne County sheriff and former Detroit police chief, who at age 65 died Thursday weeks after going on a ventilator with COVID-19, was up against a well-funded opponent: Mike Duggan. I vividly remember 2013, when Napoleon walked into the Southfield studios of CBS for his first televised encounter with Duggan. I was a panelist during the debate alongside my late friend and veteran journalist Cliff Russell.
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Since at least August 2019, the viral content website CarNovels advertised a viral story about a crab fishing boat, an iceberg, and an animal.
The online advertisement was hosted by the Taboola advertising platform and bore the headline, “Fishermen Think They Found A Seal Floating On An Iceberg, Then They Take A Closer Look.” The ad also included an image that was posted by one of the boat’s crew members:
A variation of the ad read: “Fishermen Are Surprised After Seeing What’s Sitting On Iceberg.” Once readers clicked on the ads, they landed on an 80-slide story with the headline: “These Fishermen Noticed Something Unbelievable Atop An Iceberg… What Was It?” It detailed the story of a fishing boat crew that found an Arctic fox on an iceberg.