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A Michigan House committee, this month, began discussion on how to better protect high school athletes and if that should include requiring an ambulance and an EMT or paramedic be at sporting events such as football games.
Sharryn Carter-Ivory’s son Alexander, a running back at River Rouge High School, got hurt in a game this year and needed to go to the hospital – but there was no one there to take him.
She says a police officer wound up transporting him. Her son suffered a concussion.
State Representative Harvey Santana, D-Detroit, is sponsoring the bill to require EMS at high school sporting events and concedes there aren’t enough ambulances to be there and available to help other sick or injured people too.
He hopes to talk more about the bill in 2016.
