Medical Dispatch News Today

It's national EMS week, and the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS)

Heroic 911 dispatch officer Edgar Baez, who tried to save the life of beloved EMT Capt. Alison Russo who was stabbed on a Queens street, was awarded a new FDNY medal in Russo's honor Wednesday.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The City Council went through 21 agenda items in under 90 minutes on Tuesday night. The panel accepted more than $350,000 in grants for first-responders, approved...

Redmond, WA (PRWEB) October 12, 2022 -- Zetron, a global leader in integrated mission critical communications technology, announced today that the Iowa

Lansing's 911 dispatchers are now trained as Emergency Medical Dispatchers, equipping them to advise and instruct during a medical emergen...

Five who needed help and got it

Save this story for later. Since just before the new year, Ramanan Laxminarayan, an epidemiologist and economist at Princeton, has been camped out with his family in an apartment in New Delhi. Laxminarayan is the founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, and is an expert in antibiotic resistance. During the pandemic, he’s been studying coronavirus transmission in India. He works from home, spending nearly all his time indoors until five-thirty each day...

During the pandemic, a job that’s often hidden has become indispensable.

Save this story for later. Kirtiraj Rana grew up in Rajamunda, a village of fewer than a thousand people in the northeastern Indian state of Odisha, which faces the Bay of Bengal. A migrant worker, he dropped out of school when he was in tenth grade to help support his family—his parents, a brother who also dropped out, and a sister who received only a fifth-grade education. Odisha’s farming revolves around its brief rainy season. Unable to find work in the off months, Rana travelled with h...