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The Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins with the president of INEM, Sérgio Janeiro
Helitransport, Immediate Life Support ambulances, Emergency and Resuscitation Medical Vehicles and telephone support may be Samu’s only functions from now on. They are already measured on the table.
The objective is to “raise the level of differentiation of the elements of the firefighters and the Red Cross that provide assistance”, tells an anonymous source to .
The source, who reveals that he may be on the list of nominees for the technical committee, also remembers that 80% of occurrences are already carried out by these two institutions.
The service must then focus, first and foremost, on firefighter and Red Cross training to “raise the level of differentiation of the elements that ensure relief”, says Expresso, but, until this process is completed, INEM must work in phases.
The project would then involve creating “mixed teams” in ambulancesin a first phase made up of firefighters and the Red Cross (with 200 hours of training), followed by a team of pre-hospital emergency technicians (with 910 hours of training and the possibility of administering some medications).
Furthermore, Expresso sources talk about “adding more ambulances to the network, operated by Civil Protection.
A training will be a key factor, if Ana Paula Martins approves the measures, which will be discussed by experts. To increase training capacity (currently limited to 200 people per competition), you must contact the Academy. You still want to reduce the gap between training and placement in jobs (a measure supported by the Unions, recalls Expresso).
It is worth remembering that this week the INEM Minister of Health in parliament, which she had already announced this summer, without elaborating on concrete proposals.
According to Expresso sources, moving forward, these measures could “push” INEM to specialize only in help for the most serious cases and differentiated, such as helitransportas ambulances of Immediate Life Support, Emergency and Resuscitation Medical Vehicles and the service telephone.
