Grant funds bolster rural ambulances with training, equipment • South Dakota Searchlight

Grant funds bolster rural ambulances with training, equipment • South Dakota Searchlight

A Humboldt ambulance in November 2022. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)Motorized cots and chairs, emergency medical technician training and life support dummies are among the purchases made by local ambulance services through two rounds of grant awards from the South Dakota Department of Health. Some of those items came up during the first meeting of the Legislature’s Emergency Medical Services Interim Committee this week in Pierre. That bod…