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Council hearing spotlights bill to require epinephrine in schools and child-care centers after child’s death
Summary
Council Member Julie Menon and advocates urged the New York City Council Committee on Health to advance Intro. 895, a bill that would require every public, private and charter school and licensed child‑care program in the city to keep two weight‑based epinephrine auto‑injectors on‑site.
Council Member Julie Menon and advocates urged the New York City Council Committee on Health to advance Intro. 895, a bill that would require every public, private and charter school and licensed child‑care program in the city to keep two weight‑based epinephrine auto‑injectors on‑site.
The measure was discussed at a committee hearing where Menon recounted a personal emergency that led to a statewide change and Dina Hawthorne, Elijah Alavi’s mother and cofounder of the Elijah Alavi Foundation, testified that her 3‑year‑old son died after a licensed child‑care center failed to recognize anaphylaxis or administer epinephrine.
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