Yallahs Fire Station to provide ambulance services

  

Emergency Medical Services, also known as ambulance services, are to be provided by the Yallahs Fire Station in St. Thomas.

 

This comes against the background of an incident earlier this month when firefighters in the parish rescued a woman who became pinned in a bus stop after a tractor-trailer slammed into it.

 

The woman was left with serious injuries.

 

Due to the unavailability of an ambulance, the woman had to be transported to the hospital on the floor of the fire truck, forcing the firefighters to return to their base in a private motor vehicle.

 

According to acting Commissioner of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, Warren Malcolm, the Yallahs station is among five sites across Jamaica being looked at to implement Emergency Medical Services. 

 

"The superintendent in charge here along with the Ministry of Health would have done a site visit of all the sites that we are contemplating to operate these ambulance (sic). And I have not gotten a formal report from those, but the preliminary is that they are in a state that EMS could be operated from them."

 

Acting Commissioner Malcolm said training of personnel has started.