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Emergency medical services

A Pittsburgh police officer stands in a downtown Pittsburgh intersection Sunday, May 31, 2020.

If not police, what? Part II

This week in Critical State, a foreign policy newsletter by Inkstick Media, Sam Ratner takes a deep dive into the history of Freedom House, a Pittsburgh-based Black-led nonprofit hired in 1968 to offer ambulance services in some of the predominantly Black neighborhoods around the city.

Anti-coup demonstrators gather tires to burn as they prepare to confront police during a protest in Tarmwe township, Yangon, Myanmar, April 1, 2021. 

Myanmar’s army is turning guns on medics

Conflict
Natasha, a paramedic in Haiti's first-ever ambulance serivce, gives cholera patient an IV drip in her ambulance.

Emergency medical care is a rare but fragile sign of progress in Haiti

Medicine
A Janani Express ambulance. Janani means “mother” in Hindi, and the ambulance service transports pregnant women to health centers to give birth.

How a simple van in India can save a mother’s life

Health & Medicine
A Janani Express ambulance. Janani means “mother” in Hindi, and the ambulance service transports pregnant women to health centers to give birth.

How a simple van in India can save a mother’s life

Health & Medicine
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Emergency response system suffers under patchwork funding

Global Politics

The emergency response team in Oak Creek, Wis., has received high praise for its timely and response to Sunday’s shooting. But an emergency medical expert says a response like that is the exception, not the rule. He calls the ambulance system in the United States a public policy disaster.

No Kissing, Only Hard CPR Says British Heart Foundation

Health & Medicine

The British Heart Foundation is asking people to focus on chest compressions and not worry about “mouth-to-mouth” part of the CPR.

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