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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:hes@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Tue Jun 1 12:15:40 1993
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 11:09-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: Emergency Medical Service Week
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release May 28, 1993
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK, 1993 AND 1994
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Emergency medical services personnel provide a vital
public service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Traumatic
injury is the leading cause of death and disability for men,
women, and children between the ages of 1 and 44 years. Each
year, injuries account for more than 140,000 deaths, over
2 million hospitalizations, and more than 80,000 permanent
disabilities.
Inclusive emergency medical systems play a significant
role in reducing mortality and disability due to injuries.
Quality emergency medical care saves lives and reduces
disability by linking pre-hospital, hospital, and rehabilitation
services that provide optimal care for all Americans.
Americans benefit daily from the dedication and immediate
care provided by physicians, emergency nurses, emergency
medical technicians, paramedics, fire fighters, educators,
administrators, and others who serve in coordinated systems
of emergency care. Emergency medical care providers dedicate
thousands of hours to specialized training and continuing
education to enhance and maintain their lifesaving skills.
Two-thirds of these individuals are volunteers, many of whom
serve in rural areas of the country.
Since the initial efforts to establish emergency medicine
as a medical specialty 25 years ago, emergency medical care
providers have continually advanced standards of practice in
the emergency management of traumatically injured persons.
Their efforts have resulted in the development of systems to
improve trauma care planning, regionalized systems of trauma
care, and an increased public awareness of the effects of
injury and their prevention.
We salute our Nation's emergency medical services
providers. Their daily efforts affect millions of men,
women, and children who suffer from acute illness or injury
by returning them to productive lives.
The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 78, has
designated the weeks beginning May 23, 1993, and May 15, 1994,
as "Emergency Medical Services Week" and has authorized and
requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance
of the event.
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the weeks
of May 23 through 29, 1993, and May 15 through 21, 1994, as
Emergency Medical Services Week. I call upon all Americans to
observe this period with appropriate programs and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and seventeenth.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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