Alcala-Alcossebre again requests the Conselleria de Sanitat to increase the presence of the SVB ambulance to 24 hours
The Council has reminded them that the population is multiplied during a large part of the year and that it is a significant distance from the Vinaros Hospital
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Alcala-Alcossebre Council is again urging the Valencian Generalitat to reconsider their refusal to increase the service of the Basic Vital Support (SVB) ambulance from the current 12 hours, which is the current local allocation, to 24 hours. The Council has already repeatedly requested this increase and, the General Assistance Management refuses to do this, arguing that the SAMU and the SVB based in Torreblanca can provide these services.
“We want our residents to be well served and we believe that as during a large part of the year our population is multiplied, we therefore need to be able to count on an ambulance service based in our municipality for 24 hours a day. Therefore we have gone back to request the Department to consider increasing the time for the SVB”, Mayor Francisco Juan pointed out. A letter has been sent from the Council to the Health Councillor, Ana Barceló, explaining the geographic situation of the municipality, which is more than 40 kilometres from the Vinaros Regional Hospital – which means a big delay in the time the emergency services need to get to the locality – and the lack of a SAMU, “are seriously justifiable reasons to consider that the SVP ambulance service at the 12 hours provided by her Department is insufficient”.
The Mayor reminded us that “we also requested particularly that the base of the SAMU should be installed in Alcala-Alcossebre for geographic reasons and because of the larger population, and this was refused. What we want for our municipality is to ensure that there is sufficient assistance service in the town itself, reducing waiting and response times in an emergency. We think it is good to increase the health transport services in inland areas, but it is necessary also to revise the situation in municipalities such as ours, which is already a long way away from the referenced hospital centre and which has an increased population during many months of each year”.
Alcala-Alcossebre Council is again urging the Valencian Generalitat to reconsider their refusal to increase the service of the Basic Vital Support (SVB) ambulance from the current 12 hours, which is the current local allocation, to 24 hours. The Council has already repeatedly requested this increase and, the General Assistance Management refuses to do this, arguing that the SAMU and the SVB based in Torreblanca can provide these services.
“We want our residents to be well served and we believe that as during a large part of the year our population is multiplied, we therefore need to be able to count on an ambulance service based in our municipality for 24 hours a day. Therefore we have gone back to request the Department to consider increasing the time for the SVB”, Mayor Francisco Juan pointed out. A letter has been sent from the Council to the Health Councillor, Ana Barceló, explaining the geographic situation of the municipality, which is more than 40 kilometres from the Vinaros Regional Hospital – which means a big delay in the time the emergency services need to get to the locality – and the lack of a SAMU, “are seriously justifiable reasons to consider that the SVP ambulance service at the 12 hours provided by her Department is insufficient”.
The Mayor reminded us that “we also requested particularly that the base of the SAMU should be installed in Alcala-Alcossebre for geographic reasons and because of the larger population, and this was refused. What we want for our municipality is to ensure that there is sufficient assistance service in the town itself, reducing waiting and response times in an emergency. We think it is good to increase the health transport services in inland areas, but it is necessary also to revise the situation in municipalities such as ours, which is already a long way away from the referenced hospital centre and which has an increased population during many months of each year”.
