Delta Personnel Travel to Ireland on 
Emergency Medical Services Tour

October 17, 2001

Four Delta Ambulance Paramedics: Tim & Kerry Pomerlow, Monica Minch, and Bill McKenna, along with their Medical Director, Dr. Steve Diaz, MD, joined a troop of Maine EMTs and Paramedics in a Emergency Medical Services Tour of Ireland, sponsored by Kennebec Valley EMS Council, and Southern Maine EMS Council. They will visit and work with EMS & Hospital personnel in Shannon, Dublin, Kerry, and Belfast Northern Ireland, sharing skills and experiences. Several educational sessions are planned by their Irish counterparts. Among the Dublin topics are lifeboats and air rescue. Included in  Belfast (NI) sessions are EMS Responses to Terrorism.

Members of the group will also have the opportunity of working Emergency Response along side the local Paramedics, in hospitals and on ambulances.

Delta Ambulance operates from Bases in Waterville and Augusta, serving local communities with Paramedic Emergency care, routine and critical-care transfers, wheelchair van services, and education. Delta's web pages are at http://www.DeltaAmbulance.org