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SECTION 27-AMBULANCE SERVICE.
This valuable medico social service still operates under the depressing
handicap of a completely inadequate ambulance station for the vehicles,
and poor staff accommodation.
However the loyal staff overcome all difficulties, and under their
officer-in-charge, Miss Finch, give to both the public and the hospitals a
most efficient and courteous service.
It is pleasing to note the Ministry of Health have given approval to
plans for the new station in Wellington Road, and the starting date, April
1st, 1953, has been fixed. It is possible, therefore, that the new
station may be completed by the end of 1953.
Meanwhile close co-operation must be sought with the hospitals to
ensure a more economical use of this form of patient transport, and to prevent
abuses of the service.