INEM: Ambulances stops because of the new color. There are three corporations in the affected district.
The characterization of the new INEM ambulance is illegal and the Institute of Transport is to deny licenses for travel sick. Alvito, Precipices and Cuba, among the corporations affected firefighters.
The characterization of the new emergency ambulance based in the fire is not legally regulated. New vehicles, red on the back and with the corporate identity to which they belong, They are stopping at the time of issue of patient transport license by the Institute for Mobility and Transport (IMT), the last step before they can legally move.
Among more than a dozen ambulances affected by this legal-bureaucratic mess, which may call into question the aid to populations, estão dez corporações do Alentejo, three from Beja district, Alvito Barrancos and Cuba, two of Évora, Mourao and Viana do Alentejo, and five Portalegre district, Arronches, Castelo de Vide, Crato, Marvão and Mourao.
The protocols between the Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) and fire brigades to form new Emergency Medical Stations (PEM), They were signed in early August 2017.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN) next to a source familiar process, each fire department received 50.000 euros, divided into two sections, a 45.000 and another 5000 euros, can “each institution to buy where and to whom they wanted, but according to the characteristics and the standards set by the INEM, as was the case of colors”, justified.
Subject to inspection, o IMT “It does not pass the Single Document, since the colors that cars bearing, if the red, They are not in accordance with the law. Or is there an amendment to the legislation or the car will be stopped and relief to the population may be at risk”, materialize our source, which states “not realize why the IMT approved the vehicle of firefighters of Pinhal Novo and does not approve the other”, the Mint.
According to found the LN, inside the ambulance procurement policy, five corporations, Alvito Barrancos, Cuba, Viana do Alentejo and Mourao, They joined to “acquire the vehicles together and the same supplier and get a cheaper price”, They revealed to our newspaper.
Two weights two measures- If the Pinhal Novo Firefighters
The Journal News (JN), Jaime Marta Soares, President of the League of Portuguese Firefighters, consider the situation “ridiculous and irresponsible”, arguing that the IMT's attitude “it is incomprehensible”, the same entity “has issued license to the new ambulances Pinhal Novo corporation”, concluded.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
