Governor Proclaims Emergency Medical Services for Children Day 2024

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN DAY

2024

BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, Emergency Medical Services for Children supports EMS, the community-based public service whose presence is vital to children in need; and

WHEREAS, the needs of children are different than the needs of adults in medical emergencies; and

WHEREAS, Emergency Medical Services for Children promotes the high-level emergency care given by EMS providers with pediatric emergency skills; and

WHEREAS, Emergency Medical Services for Children helps implement training in the use of advanced technical equipment and services that can save the life of a child; and

WHEREAS, EMS providers are thoroughly prepared to respond to children who experience a medical emergency and provide them with the critical help they need; and

WHEREAS, Emergency Medical Services for Children works with physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, educators, administrators, and others to identify and address issues surrounding pediatric care; and

WHEREAS, Emergency Medical Services for Children helps develop training programs and guidelines for emergency care providers so that children with special health care needs receive timely, appropriate care; and

WHEREAS, the dedicated professionals who provide emergency medical services for our state’s children deserve our gratitude and recognition and we honor their work by designating Emergency Medical Services for Children Day;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ROY COOPER, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim May 22, 2024, as “EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN DAY” in North Carolina, and commend its observance to all citizens.

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Roy Cooper

Governor

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-four and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.