From 12 November last year, when the ambulance of the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) Astruit to the corporation gave a breakdown in a workshop in Beja, Firefighters Volunteer Mértola (BVM) did not have a pre-hospital emergency vehicle to respond to the population's requests.
Yesterday (Wednesday) A new ambulance arrived at the BVM headquarters, acquired with money from the municipality and the humanitarian association itself (AHBVM), that from Monday it is ready to respond to the operative center of urgent patients (CODU).
Tired of waiting for the fulfillment of the commitment assumed, in September 2019, By Luís Meira, then chairman of the Institute's Board of Directors, And later the lack of responses of INEM-Maintenance to repair the vehicle itself that ended up towing with the damaged with the workshop, The direction of AHBVM, It was decided to acquire its own ambulance.
The new vehicle had a cost of 63.871,36 euros, and 50.000 supported by the Municipality of Mértola and the remaining 13.800 euros will leave the corporation's coffers. As the protocol between INEM and the fire brigade was changed, because the ambulance is from the corporation starts to receive 8.600 euros unlike 6.000 I received, because the vehicle is from INEM.
When Lidador News (LN), Jorge Santos, commander of the BVM, He was satisfied that “we can ensure the emergency aid requests that our populations do, besides that the vehicle is ours and gives us other guarantees ”, concluded.
PRR Fire Fighting Vehicles
Beyond the new ambulance, The corporation of Mértola also received the firefighting forest vehicle on Wednesday (VFCI) that had been delivered to the PRR shelter and ordered to collect to the manufacturer after the mortal accident, que no dia 1 de Janeiro caused one dead and five injured in the despair of a vehicle of the Odemira Firefighters.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
