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Article: Air ambulance crunch a 'crisis'
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- April 13, 2006
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face=+Bold; Some neighbor isle doctors demand the state act to address ever-longer delaysface=-Bold;
WAILUKU » Some neighbor island doctors have declared an emergency, urging the state to step in to provide additional air ambulance services to fly the severely injured to Oahu hospitals.
"I think the system needs an overhaul," said Dr. David Nelson, in charge of transferring patients from Maui Memorial Medical Center. "I believe an emergency exists."
Maui emergency physicians spokeswoman Sharlee Dieguez said response times have gone downhill in the past several years and have deteriorated even more since the fatal crash of a Hawaii Air Ambulance plane in Kahului on March 8.
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