INEM: New ambulances still stops waiting IMT inspection.
INEM ambulances purchased by fire brigades, continue stops. Now is the IMT inspections, after overcome the issue of characterization.
Four new ambulances, of Alentejo fire brigades, They are standing in the barracks, Aveiro waiting for a call, do Instituto de Mobilidade e Transportes (IMT), to be inspected and subsequently receive the Single Document (OF).
On posse to DU, corporations ask the INEM the accreditation of the car and then go to the IMT to get the patient transport license so ambulances enter service.
Neste caso estão as ambulâncias de quatro corporações do Alentejo, Alvito, Canyons, Viana do Alentejo and Mourao, a viatura de Cuba ainda não foi entregue por questões burocráticas.
The same source told LN that “two months ago we have the car stops, waiting for someone of Aveiro IMT calls us to do the inspection vehicles”, Remata.
First was the characterization of ambulances IMT, já que os novos veĂculos, red on the back and with the corporate identity to which they belong, situation was overcome with an order of the Government, but now, bump in the absence of inspection in order to legally circular.
It is recalled that 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.
Each fire department received 50.000 euros, divided into two sections, a 45.000 and another 5000 euros, and 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.
The vehicles of corporations to Alvito, Canyons, Cuba, Viana do Alentejo and Mourao, were “Acquire together and the same supplier and get a cheaper price”, as revealed to Lidador News (LN), source connected to the process.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
