The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health is seeking the municipal People’s Committee’s approval for an ambulance boat with sufficient medical equipment for first aid for residents in outlying Can Gio District and adjacent areas in the 2023-25 period.

The ambulance boat is part of a plan to develop a professional outpatient emergency system in the southern metropolis until 2030.

This is also a dream of many generations in Thanh An Island Commune and Can Gio District as a whole.

The department said the ambulance ship will be made of aluminum alloy and be equipped with two stretchers, an oxygen supply system, monitors, a portable ventilator, a phlegm suction machine, an automated external defibrillator, tools, and medicines.

The ship will have means of communication to contact relevant forces.

The ambulance ship will diversify transport services for emergency purposes to meet local residents’ increasing demands and match the city’s geographical characteristics, according to the Department of Health.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health proposed a station of waterway ambulance services at a port where the Can Gio Border Guard force garrisons.

The municipal healthcare sector will select and train personnel for waterway emergency services.

The city will also develop and issue a waterway emergency process with the 115 Emergency Center responsible for medical missions and Can Gio border guards taking charge of operating, maintaining, and repairing the ambulance ship.

The Department of Health will weigh expanding the waterway emergency model with an additional station at Bach Dang Wharf in District 1 after assessing the results of the service by 2025.

The transport of patients to hospitals on waterways from coastal areas, islands, and remote areas which road and air means of transport cannot reach is necessary, according to the department.

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