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Official Press Release |
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Joe Luksha knows the
extreme effort it takes to move sick or injured people from the field to a
treatment location after 20 plus years in the military. |
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"I wanted to take that
'Can Do' spirit I inherited from the US Navy Seabees and invent needed
equipment that would make the transfer of a sick or injured person easy
and keep the patient as comfortable as possible while requiring only one
person to move the patient" stated Joe Luksha, President of Med-Zone, Inc.
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What started this whole
process was a request about four year ago through the internet to Joe. The request
was for a specialized wheeled gurney or stretcher to move ill or injured
people from remote locations. |
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Two Doctors from the U.K.
working in Zambia, Africa as missionaries desperately needed some kind of
specialized equipment to move sick and/or injured people from remote
locations over uneven terrain to the hospital for treatment.
In many of these locations there are only foot paths or dirt roads and no
local ambulance service like we are accustomed to here in the USA. |
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Joe contacted the Doctors
and informed them that if he could not locate something that would serve
their needs, that he would get busy and invent something that would solve
their problem. After continuous correspondence for over 12
months and many redesigns of prototypes, Joe and his Team arrived
at the "All Terrain Gurney", The ATG. |
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The ATG is quite unique.
One person can take an injured or ill person through rough terrain to a
treatment location or to a location for conventional transfer to a
hospital. The ATG is simple in design enabling it to stand up
to the riggers of off road use. When its no longer needed, it quickly
folds in half for storage. |
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All of the teams hard work
paid off and 2 ATG's were sold and shipped to Zambia, Africa.
Recently, members of Fire and Rescue from Manatee County in Florida and a
Fire and Rescue team from the Carolina's have reviewed the ATG and all
noted that this equipment was needed a long time ago and would be of
enormous help in retrieving people from rough areas. |
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The ATG currently has a
patent pending as it goes through it's final tweaking before it goes to
manufacture, "There are a couple of small things to get just right" Joe
stated.
There will be two additional types of ATG, one for the seashore and one
for snow country.
For more information contact
Joe Luksha at All Terrian Industries, Inc. in Port Charlotte, Fl. at
941.875.2389 or 941.769.5906 or e-mail at allterriangurney@comcast.net. |
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