Alberta closing hospital helipads...
Apparently they don't meet new transport Canada regulations.
Maybe not the hugest of deals, but this is a prime example of government officials being idiots. Chaps my ass. This service saves lives every day.
Helicopter landing pads are being closed at eight Alberta hospitals.
The closures begin Tuesday and will last two months. The medical choppers will have to land at municipal airports and transport patients by ground ambulance instead of landing directly at hospitals.
The affected hospitals are in Didsbury, Consort, Sundre, Barrhead, Castor, Wainwright, Westlock
and the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton.
Alberta Health Services says the helipads don't meet new regulations by Transport Canada .. But a Transport Canada official says none of its rules have changed.
Looks like Calgary's pads are staying open?
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