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High-flying help: Ontario may have problems with its charter air ambulance, but hospital officials say patients get good care from special helicopter teams
High-flying help: Ontario may have problems with its charter air ambulance, but hospital officials say patients get good care from special helicopter teams

High-flying help: Ontario may have problems with its charter air ambulance, but hospital officials say patients get good care from special helicopter teams

Date2/26/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: High-flying help: Ontario may have problems with its charter air ambulance; but hospital officials say patients get good care from special helicopter teams.
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