A change in the procedures followed in relation to the response of ambulances to calls involving positive Covid-19 cases is being made by the UKIPA's Ambulance Service.
Specifically, from Monday, 14 February, the Ambulance Service will respond only to Covid-19 positive emergencies, just as it does with all other conditions and injuries.
Therefore, citizens not requiring emergency treatment and ambulance transport should visit hospitals by their own private means. Also, patients receiving discharges should be transported by private means and not by ambulance.
For the above change, Personal Physicians have also been informed about it, who will inform people that, if they consider that they need to be clinically evaluated in the short-stay departments of the hospitals of the OCYPY, but do not require urgent treatment and transport by ambulance, they should go to the hospitals by private means.
The Head of the Ambulance Service, Riana Constantinou, said that "the role of the Ambulance Service, just as described by the World Health Organization, is exclusively about saving human lives and therefore ambulances should always be ready and available to reduce the response time, to provide immediate emergency pre-hospital health care to increase the survival rate of the sufferer".
"Today, 2 years after the start of the Covid19 pandemic and after humanity understood the behaviour and action of the virus, protocols and guidelines have been revised in relation to the use of ambulances in the movement of cases, so that the Ambulance Services can focus on their real role which is animal rescue and not the provision of transport services (taxi services)," he added.
It is noted that, the procedure for calling an ambulance in emergency situations has not changed and Personal Physicians should call 112 or 22887171 (Ambulance Call Coordination Centre) 24 hours a day for all cases where their patients require immediate and urgent treatment by the Ambulance Service.
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