WASHINGTON 鈥� The聽controversy around D.C. Fire and EMS following the聽public resignation of its medical director is a storm聽that has died down but has not blown over.
The department聽is on聽deadline to produce a timeline of changes to the City Council.
Her to Mayor Muriel Bowser was described as scathing. Dr. Juliette Saussy’s and chair Kenyan McDuffie got specific, highlighting a lack of baseline medical training she says needs assessment.
“I聽asked the [Fire Chief Gregory Dean]聽about baseline assessments. I asked him to come back to the council with a hard deadline as to when the assessments will be performed, how they’ll be performed and, ultimately a time frame for implementing the training,” McDuffie said.
Dean has said hiring will provide the opportunity to聽 update training and improve accountability in the system by sticking to shift breaks.
When asked whether聽the chief is overcommitting the change that will come from bringing on AMR, McDuffie responded that it’s not a permanent fix.
“We don’t want to have a third-party contractor in place forever. so we want to have some clearly聽measurable benchmarks聽so we can see the progress happening. We’re going to hold the chief accountable. He wants to be held accountable,” he said.
