25 more ambulances to boost GMRTT service

The minister said the average response time in Mayaro was 25 minutes. He said that for this year up until June 13, that constituency has had 140 ambulance patient transport cases by the GMR Ambulance service, made up of 35 cases in Mayaro and 105 in Rio Claro. He said this equated to one case per day for that constituency.

“It should be noted that the ambulance deployment plan is adjusted on an hourly basis to cater for demand and to improve the patient experience.” Paray asked how many ambulances are deployed in the constituency? Deyalsingh replied, “The ambulance fleet for the whole of Trinidad and Tobago currently stands at 43, of which 34 are on the road at any particular time.

“Plans are underway to boost that by 25 and bring the compliment up to 68. Ambulances are not deployed ‘by constituency’.

They are deployed based on historical data, historical load, but also the algorithm changes every hour to cater for any shift in demand. So resources can either be sent to one area if there’s increased demand, or taken away,” he said on Friday.