Dear Editor:

The Brits are at it again!  They are now making a formal inquiry into the death of Princess Diana. There are reasons to believe she was “murdered” the powers-that-be now say.

I say she was killed, not murdered.  She was killed by the French Emergency System where EMTs are expected to perform complicated actions at an accident site instead of transporting the injured person to an ER as soon as it is safe to do so.

Unless we are going to buy refrigerator trucks, stocked with blood, to appear at accident scenes, people will bleed to death as she did. Maybe someone will donate an ice cream truck to stockpile blood and we can have a traveling blood mobile (sarcasm to point out the ridiculousness of this).

Around the time of her death, I heard U.S. media people commenting on the U.K. system vs. the U.S. system and that she would not have died if that accident had happened in the U.S. This peninsula is now moving toward “their system,” expecting EMTs to take more actions; perform steps that ER doctors presently perform at the ER in St. Andrews Hospital.

To this day, I’d put money on the bet, that those who tried to save her life that night in that tunnel, are still haunted by it. It is too much to ask EMTs to assume the responsibilities of doctors. We need this ER to remain open and functioning. 

Should the hospital have a debt at the end of a year, it would be less expensive to the people of this peninsula to divide that up and pay for it than to incur the millions over the next 10 years that a beefed up ambulance service will require.

God bless us all if this situation develops and the ER closes.

Carol Burrill
Boothbay Harbor