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Mass. EMTs to get training

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Found this on the EMS1.com site Mass. EMTs to get training. This story starts off sounding good "FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — A $62,000 survey project, funded by the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation and conducted by Massachusetts Bay Community College, aims to improve "cultural competency" among emergency responders in the Framingham area, who are often called upon to serve members of the immigrant community." Sounds good may help but no where in the story are thry going to draw from the emergency services community. It would help if the writer from the Boston Globe worte"Project organizers will use the collected information to compile a training manual to help police officers, firefighters, and ambulance drivers better understand cultural impediments to effective delivery of services." AMBULANCE DRIVERS the Ambulance rider don't count? Some of the quotes ""How can paramedics know that somebody in my family is allergic to penicillin?" asked Wallace Nascimento, a Framingham resident for 20 years and president of the nonprofit Allan Kardec Spiritist Society of Marlborough, and a volunteer helping project organizers." He has been here 20 years come on. While EMS needs to understand some cultural norms that may cause people to delay care or be afraid of the people in uniform a little education both ways would do a lot of good.

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