Whooping cough death during ambulance strike

Title

Whooping cough death during ambulance strike

Genre

Interview

TX Date

31 Aug 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:01:51

Description

Interview with an ambulanceman following the death of a baby from whooping cough during the current ambulance workers strike over pay on how ambulancemen can do little except transport such cases to hospital. Male speaker and interviewer not identified. Poor quality audio.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Deaths; Infectious diseases; Strikes; Labour disputes; Health services; NHS; Ambulance services; Babies; Whooping cough; Epidemics; Paramedical personnel; Bacterial infections; Diseases of newborn infants; Respiratory tract diseases

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