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A few private hospitals in Hong Kong have their own

These are unlikely to be available in an

ambulances.

emergency.

b)

I do not have a figure for the average time taken

for an ambulance to reach the scene of an accident.

The reason is that the Fire Services Department does

not have the staff necessary to analyse the 850 calls

a day which the Axbulance Service now receives. But

from time to time the Department analyses samples of

calls in order to check on operating performance, The

Department did the last analysis on a sample of 250

emergency calls answered in June this year comprising

50 calls from each of 17 depots distributed over the

whole territory. They found that attendance times in

respect of 903 of the emergency calls were within the

target attendance times the Government uses for

planning purposes, that is 10 minutes in urban areas

and 20 minutes in rural areas. As it will never be

possible to achieve the target times in 100% of cases, given such uncontrollable factors in Hong Kong's particular environment as traffic congestion, this

result is considered satisfactory.

/The trial

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