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Digitized from Box 17 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 4, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK, 1975
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Each week more than a thousand Americans die as a
result of accidents, heart attacks and other medical
emergencies because emergency assistance is not available.
For many years, physicians and health professionals
have urged improved national services and facilities for
emergency medical care. Since 1968, pursuant to the
publication of Standard 11, "Emergency Medical Services"
in accordance with the Highway Safety Act of 1966, the
Department of Transportation has been engaged actively in
improving Emergency Care at the onset of the emergency
and in transit to more definitive care. In 1973, the
Congress passed the "Emergency Medical Services Systems
Act of 1973" to create an additional national thrust toward
the goal of improved total emergency care.
Now two Federal agencies, the Department of Transpor-
tation and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,
are working closely with States and communities to improve
medical emergency services. Although many cities enjoy
satisfactory services, the great majority of our communities,
especially in rural areas, still require considerable
improvement.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby designate the week
beginning November 3 as Emergency Medical Services Week.
I call upon the Governors and Mayors and all other
State and local officials to assist hospital administrators
and physicians, fire departments, public safety agencies
and all ambulance services in improving emergency medical
services.
I call upon Federal agencies, especially the Departments
of Transportation and Health, Education, and Welfare to
continue, with renewed vigor, their assistance to States
and communities in accelerating efforts to help those in
need of emergency medical assistance.
I call upon all our people to lend their support to
these efforts. We are a traveling nation and none of us
knows when we might need help far from home.
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Let us affirm that this national legislation is only
the beginning of our effort to upgrade and perpetuate this
part of our total health care system so no individual in
this country will lack help whenever or wherever he needs
it.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourth
day of November, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred seventy-five and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundredth.
GERALD R. FORD
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