{"id":38952,"date":"2021-02-12T17:47:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=38952"},"modified":"2021-02-16T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:19:05","slug":"nelson-bc-emergency-response-program-unique-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nelson-bc-emergency-response-program-unique-for-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson emergency response program unique in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Nelson physician Dr. Nicholas Sparrow, it all started as a youngster, when his two-year old sister\u2019s life was saved at the scene of her near-drowning.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the doctor, who began medical school at the age of 17 in his native England, has saved many lives on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Sparrow is the physician who spearheaded the Kootenay Emergency Response Physicians Association (KERPA) \u2014 one of very few programs like it in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed head to toe in high visibility, all-weather emergency response gear, and equipped with a truck packed with expensive life-saving equipment, Sparrow \u2014 a full time ER doctor at Kootenay Lake Hospital and father \u2014 has answered over 500 calls since KERPA began.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, he is the first on the scene of terrible accidents, alone with victims, before paramedics, fire and police arrive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is Sparrow speaking with CJLY about the program:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Nelson physician Dr. Nicholas Sparrow, it all started as a youngster, when his two-year old sister\u2019s life was saved at the scene of her near-drowning. Today, the doctor, who began medical school at the age of 17 in his native England, has saved many lives on his own. Sparrow is the physician who spearheaded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":38983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[6102,2530,6103],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38952"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=38952"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=38952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}