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The bill followed on an 11Alive investigation that found dozens had needed assistance at Atlanta’s airport while 911 operators were barred from giving instructions.
ATLANTA — Calling 911 in Georgia is currently a game of roulette: you might get a medically-trained dispatcher or you might not.
It all depends which 911 center answers the call.
That’s because training to give CPR instructions over the phone is not required for Georgia dispatchers. More than half of 911 centers in the state don’t offer CPR or Emergency Medical Dispatch pre-arrival instructions to emergency callers, as first revealed by 11Alive…
