Ambulance
services
The Ambulance Command
operates from 35 depots with
2,350 uniformed staff. The services fleet consists of 268 ambulances, four village ambulances,
four mobile casualty treatment centres and 35 paramedic
motorcycles. All motorcycles and ambulances are equipped with
paramedic facilities to provide paramedic care. In 2004, the
Command responded to 574,901 calls, conveying a total of 521,127
patients or casualties to hospitals/clinics, or an average of 1 575
calls a day.
There were 106 cases of ambulance personnel sustaining
injury whilst on active duty in 2004. Front-line firemen are also
trained as first-responders to provide basic life support to
casualties and patients before the arrival of an ambulance crew. So
far, first-responders are available in 68 fire stations.
