Quebec reverses course, will allow parent on air ambulance flights with kids
MONTREAL — The Quebec government is changing course on a controversial policy and will now allow parents to accompany their sick children on emergency air evacuations.
Health Minister Gaetan Barrette says at least one parent will be permitted to join their children on future air ambulance flights.
The change comes in the wake of a letter a trio of Montreal physicians sent the Quebec government in December calling for a change to the longstanding policy of transporting kids alone.
They urged the Health Department to act, saying the policy disproportionately affected northern Inuit and First Nations communities and that transporting the children alone from remote communities led to issues in providing them with treatment in southern Quebec.