You’d think if you build a fancy billion dollar hospital you’d make a helipad on the roof, if only to future proof it. Building it after the fact will be more expensive, but yeah now SNC-Lavalin doesn’t have to foot the bill.
Even the heart institute doesn’t have a helipad and is also being extended/renovated, you’d think heart transplants would benefit from it.
Maybe we get trauma helicopters too in Quebec. There was a test a long time ago, but they were never implemented. If you don’t have them you don’t have to pay for them, huge savings on the public health costs.
mare 12:53 on 2024-03-04 Permalink
You’d think if you build a fancy billion dollar hospital you’d make a helipad on the roof, if only to future proof it. Building it after the fact will be more expensive, but yeah now SNC-Lavalin doesn’t have to foot the bill.
Even the heart institute doesn’t have a helipad and is also being extended/renovated, you’d think heart transplants would benefit from it.
Maybe we get trauma helicopters too in Quebec. There was a test a long time ago, but they were never implemented. If you don’t have them you don’t have to pay for them, huge savings on the public health costs.
SMD 13:54 on 2024-03-04 Permalink
See the CBC report from January: Quebec is still the only province without a helicopter ambulance system. What’s the holdup?. And retired paramedic Hal Newman has done a great job of tracking and explaining the gaps in Quebec’s pre-hospital care atThe Last Ambulance.