I think it's important to realize that, for some of the communities that we're talking about for the surge, it wouldn't be just the equipment that would go, it would be the critical care paramedic who would go with the kit. They have very little infrastructure there. At some of these remote indigenous communities in northern Ontario, it's a nursing station with no in-patient facility. The model of care there would be to evacuate them as quickly as possible. If there were, say, six or seven community members, and they were waiting for the airlift out, at least we could leave some people there to keep those patients alive while awaiting transport.
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