LOCAL AMBULANCE SERVICES

Consider yourself lucky if you live in a city or musicality that has a free ambulance service for public use. If not, you could be facing a great threat to your health safety everyday where you now live. Of course, every ambulance service needs to have teams of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) also, because ambulances would be useless if there are no EMTs. Who is in charge of requiring and monitoring the compliance of LGUs when it comes to ambulance services and EMTs? Is it the DOH? Or the DILG? Or could it even be the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)? Depending on where you live, and depending on the policies and programs of your LGU, the provision of ambulance services and EMTs could either be under the Fire Department, or the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO), sometimes called the Rescue Department. Ambulance units are not too expensive, and they are obviously cheaper than fire trucks. And also, not too many ambulance units are needed, unlike the number of fire trucks needed. That said, why is it that there are still some LGUs that do not have ambulance units and EMTs? Could it be that the task of requiring and monitoring the compliance of LGUs should properly belong to the provincial governors, since they are the ones who really know the actual situation in the ground? IKE SENERES/09088877282/1-24-2024