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Digitized from Box 34 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 4, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK, 1976
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 with improving emergency care at the onset of
the emergency and in transit to more definitive care.
This year, a bill extending the "Emergency Medical Services
Systems Act of 1973" was passed by Congress and signed into
law on October 21. The Act provides for a continued national
commitment to the improvement of total emergency care for the
sick and injured.
As a result, the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare, and the Department of Transportation, together with
several other Federal agencies, will continue to work 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 7, 1976, 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 emphasis, 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.
Let us affirm that this national legislation is only the
beginning of our effort to upgrade and perpetuate this part
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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-six and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and first.
GERALD R. FORD
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