Monday, 31 August 2009 12:03
NEWSFLASH Ambulance Service NEWSFLASH
Readers will be aware I have been passionate about our local ambulance service being improved for years. We have successfully implemented a First Responder Program but as I have said so many times in a critical emergency (which can strike anyone or any family) there is no substitute to a fully equipped ambulance with paramedics.
In a Ministerial response to me I have been informed that the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) has supported my call for an ADDITIONAL ambulance station at Bellbowrie/Moggill.
The reply reads as follows:-
During the QFRS investigation for a site at a better location, the QAS was consulted as to whether the Pullenvale site would improve its response to emergency incidents. After careful investigation QAS concluded that current service delivery from the Kenmore Ambulance Station to the Pullenvale and surrounding areas could best be improved by building an additional ambulance station at Bellbowrie.
(QFRS is Queensland Fire and Rescue Services)
Now I hasten to add that this is still a long way from having a project funded and given the go ahead but it is very important that the professional officers within the QAS have also recognised that the only way of delivering timely emergency ambulance attendance within our local area is to build an additional station.
This has given strong and vital support to my call for an extra ambulance station and as you might expect I am taking this matter up vigorously with the State Government to pursue any possibility there may be of bringing it into reality.