9.1
VEHICLES
The present deployment of vehicles is shown in Table 4.
TABLE 4: DEPLOYMENT OF EXISTING 216 AMBULANCES ·
Hong Kong Kowloon Kowloon
New North South Territories
Total
Operational Vehicles
41
32
31
54
158
Hospital Transfer
4
1
2
3
10
Emergency Reserve
2
1.
2
3
8
Maintenance Reserve
8
7
6
13
34
Training
6
Total
55
41
41
73
216
system,
even for patients
9.2
Under the recommended deployments and a two-tier no increase in Hospital Transfer Vehicles is envisaged, the routine tier, as the frail condition of many requires a higher level of care than is possible with a Hospital Transfer Vehicle. However, all vehicles need not carry the full range of emergency equipment. 157 fully operational ambulances will be required each day, plus eight emergency
reserve,
six training and a maintenance allowance of approximately 20 per cent. This gives a total requirement of 207 ambulances and 10 HTV, ie. 217 vehicles in 1986 to implement the recommendations in this report.
9.3
According to the required increases in deployments over the next five years as developed in this study, total vehicle requirements, including 10 HTV, emergency reserve, maintenance reserve and training will increase annually as shown in Table 5. These figures are produced graphically in Appendix 6. The allowances for emergency reserve and maintenance reserve are consistent with current practice.
These may change, however, subject to further review of policy and vehicle maintenance arrangements.
TABLE 5: VEHICLE REQUIREMENTS 1986-1991
YEAR
(Mid-Year Delivery) AMBULANCES HTV RESERVE
EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE
RESERVE
TRAINING TOTAL
1986
157
10
36
6
217
1987
171
10
39
6
234
1988
186
10
8
42
252
1989
205
10
8
46
275
1990
215
10
8
48
1991
234
10
51
CO CO
6
287
6
309
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