Saratoga County Proclaims Emergency Medical Services Week

BALLSTON SPA — THE Saratoga County Board of Supervisors on April 16 approved a resolution to proclaim May 19-25 as Emergency Medical Services Week in Saratoga County. 

The Emergency Medical Services system consists of first responders, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, 911 telecommunicators, emergency medical dispatchers, emergency medical physicians, nurses, law enforcement officers, and firefighters, among others.

“Emergency Medical Services Week” was first proclaimed nationally in 1974 to celebrate Emergency Medical Services Clinicians and the important work they do in communities across the country. 

“Whereas, Emergency Medical Service Clinicians provide frontline life-saving services every day, it is important that this Board of Supervisors and County residents recognize the important work and sacrifices that Emergency Medical Service Clinicians make to provide emergency assistance to the citizens of Saratoga County,” according to the proclamation, “and encourages all residents to join in honoring the unwavering commitment of Emergency Medical Service Clinicians who have rendered services to the community, while remembering those Emergency Medical Service Clinicians who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.”