Mértola: Firefighters will refuse service INEM, for lack of ambulance.
The lack of an ambulance INEM makes Mértola Firemen do not do emergency services from the next day 15 January. The car is broken from 28 October and there was no replacement.
The direction of the Volunteer Fire Department Mértola (BVM) He has already announced the National Medical Emergency Institute (INEM), that until the next day 15 January to replace the damaged ambulance is not regularized, They will refuse to emergency services enabled by the Operational Center for Emergency Patients (CODU).
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), the corporation has given notice in writing to the president of the Institute that "if the vehicle is not repaired in time or not is put a replacement, will not be asseguras emergencies ", guarantee. The document was also sent to the Relief Operations District Commander (CDOS) Beja and the Municipality of Mértola, among others.
At issue is the fact that the INEM vehicle, It affects the BVM be broken from 28 October and from that date that the corporation is making the responsibility of the INEM services with own vehicles. The medical emergency vehicle has "broken engine" and its repair is estimated at 8.000 euros and the corporation did not receive a replacement car.
The middle is the fact that the last week of 2019, in a patient transport service to the Beja Hospital ambulance the fire broke, It is the immediate support of car life (SIV) to take the patient to the hospital, while the ambulance of the firemen "returned to barracks", upon an emergency room.
The LN contacted the direction of Mértola Fire, that currently "no comment", but our newspaper found corporate source together that "there is no willingness to maintain an untenable situation".
Turn, INEM "recognizes" the malfunction and the value of repair, explaining that through its Logistics and Operations Office referred the case "to the management company fleet and just last day 3 January received the process to proceed to repair ", conclude.
When placed before the issues of the course while the process is going to put in a car BVM replacement and when you think you have the outdated status, INEM not justified. Already on replacing the car with a new one, the Institute said that it "will happen until next year 2021, time the Fleet Renewal Plan is complete ", which has several underlying weighting criteria.
Another case in the district
In 23 November 2015, the ambulance INEM of Ferreira do Alentejo Firefighters broke down. As there was no response, the corporation's command gave notice to the then president of the INEM that "refused to services with their own ambulances".
The news was published in LN on 8 December and 24 hours after the Institute has provided an ambulance to replace the corporation Ferreira do Alentejo.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
