Tuesday, November 20, 2007

** Slain Canadian military medic has army EMT wife

** Medics too slow to save Diana, inquest hears

CANADA NEWS

** The wife of a Canadian military medic slain last week in Afghanistan is also a serving EMT herself. That is the word from the Canadian Press (November 19) which said Corporal Dolores Crampton accompanied her husband’s body home to Canada following a twilight ramp ceremony. Both Crampton and Corporal Nicolas Beauchamp, 28, were stationed in Kandahar. Beauchamp died last Friday in a roadside bomb explosion. He served with the 5th Field Ambulance in Valcartier, Quebec. His father told the newspaper his lifelong dream had always been to be a paramedic.

UNITED KINGDOM

** The life of Princess Diana could have been saved, had French medics gotten her to the hospital sooner. That is the word from the Daily Mail (November 19) which quoted leading British surgeon Professor Thomas Treasure as saying precious moments were lost by the ambulance’s slow progress from Paris’ Point de l’Alma tunnel where the crash occurred to more definitive care. Treasure was testifying at a UK inquest into the princess’ death. Noting EMS attended the scene some 35 minutes after the crash, he said the ambulance remained on scene for 40 minutes stablilizing Diana before heading to the hospital. Even then, the rig stopped again for about five minutes when only yards away from the facility. Diana, Princess of Wales died from internal injuries August 31, 1997.