NEW YORK — The license for an all-female EMT group in Brooklyn was rejected last night because the licensing authority did not have enough votes, PIX11 reports.
Ezras Nashim – Hebrew for “helping women” — operates in a small area of Brooklyn that serves Orthodox Jewish women who are not comfortable being treated by male first responders.
The group has been trying to operate an ambulance but has received pushback from the all-male Hatzalah EMS service.
“They don’t want women to join, at the same time they don’t want women to have their own ambulance company, so that’s something that I don’t understand,” Jim Dering, Ezras Nashim’s attorney, told the station.
The group says it will be appealing the decision.
Watch the PIX11 report below.
