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(a)

Page

4

(b)

(c)

the Ambulance

an

Command responded to average of 639 emergency and urgent calls (Footnote 2) per day 267 in Kowloon, 212 in the New Territories and 160 in Hong Kong;

an average of 595 routine patients (Footnote 2) per weekday were transported in an average of 283 trips;

the emergency and routine services were supplied by 150 and 75 three man crews in the day and night shifts respectively;

(d) the

service

purpose-built

was operated from ambulance depots,

13

five

further

locations

ambulance stations and 14 fire stations, with standby at four

(Footnote 3);

Footnote 2

-

the

e.g.

immediate

to

remove

Emergency call : it requires

mobilisation of a vehicle, injured persons in a car accident to a nearby hospital.

Urgent call: it requires response within a given time limit e.g. to remove a hospital patient to another hospital for urgent treatment Οι investigation. For the purposes of the study emergency and urgent calls were grouped together as "emergency".

Routine removal request : may be answered when a vehicle is available (or possibly may be scheduled), e.g. to remove a hospital patient

hospital convalescence or treatment of a non-urgent

nature.

Footnote 3

to

another

for

Most ambulance depots have been constructed during the past fifteen years and, being purpose-built, represent the most

most permanent type ambulance location.

Ambulance stations are generally older and smaller than depots. They were constructed, mostly in Kowloon, before the early 1970s as an expedient measure to meet rapidly increasing demand. Although they were regarded as temporary at the time of planning, it has been found that they are very useful and necessary in maintaining the current standard of service.