EMS in the Caribbean
By many accounts the world’s first formal emergency call number was implemented in Britain in 1937 after an angry reader wrote to the Times of London complaining that five deaths in a recent fire [...]
Emergency Response 101
One Sunday afternoon, driving back to Port-au-Prince on Boulevard Harry Truman, I came up on a scene that’s not completely uncommon: a young teenager had been thrown from the back of a Tap-Tap, [...]
Port-au-Prince EMS
At first glance, Port-au-Prince may seem the most difficult place on earth to develop a reliable EMS system. However, with the right partners and shared goals, we’ve seen that an effective and [...]