ambulances firegeezer on 03 Jul 2008 10:06 am
Need A New Ambulance?
THEN YOU ORDER ONE. BUT WHAT IF YOU NEED 300 AMBULANCES? If you’re the head of the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia, then you just go ahead and order 300 of them.
The Kingdom’s current ambulance fleet needs replacing, so they have ordered 300 GMC Savannah’s which will be converted into an ambulance configuration. The Arab News reports:
“These state-of-the-art ambulances will be fully equipped to meet emergencies,” Health Minister Dr. Hamad Al-Manie said, adding that the new fleet will be deployed in the Kingdom’s 20 health regions.
Abdullah Al-Subaie, chairman of the Transport Division at the Ministry of Health, said this was the single largest spending by the ministry on ambulances. “An agreement has already been signed and the vehicles will be supplied over a period of nine months,” he said.
Al-Subaie said the supplier would be responsible for servicing and maintaining the vehicles for 10 years.
“They will be equipped with all necessary apparatus for medics and paramedics for treating patients,” he said, adding that the ambulances would carry the Ministry of Health’s name and the name of the region where they will serve.
