Each bariatric ambulance cost the county roughly $235,000 — a price that includes the expense of buying both the hydraulic lift and the special stretchers, Assistant Chief of EMS Jeff Taylor said.

The accusation, highly publicised when it was leveled by Israel early this month, "was unjustified as the object, in fact, was a folding stretcher of the type carried as normal equipment in UNRWA ...

The obesity problem in America has been creating some unique challenges for emergency workers. Now, Boston has purchased a new hydraulic ambulance lift and stretcher designed for obese patients.

Bariatric ambulances are specially-designed and equipped in response to a 10-fold spike in hospital visits linked to obesity in the past decade. The number of admissions has increased from 52,000 ...