Why Private Ambulance Services have

Become Most People’s First Choice

In the event of medical emergency, the time before a patient gains access to medical

attention can largely mark the difference between a successful recovery and an unfortunate

event. This is when private ambulance services are known to work more efficiently and

provide better medical care. No wonder people today prefer the use of private ambulance

service over the other alternatives.

Private ambulance services are increasingly becoming popular in towns and cities. While

there are certain ambulance services funded by the government and approachable by an

emergency phone number, people in various towns and cities prefer private ambulance

services to respond to certain medical emergencies. The private companies offer a range of

services starting from non-emergency transport to an emergency one.

Let’s take a look as to why so many people now prefer private ambulance services:

1. Highly Efficient

Private ambulance service providers make sure they keep their ambulances running for

continuous shifts. They not only serve the local clients, who are close to the hospitals, but

also cater to the needs of a wide range of patients.

Such companies have their ambulances cover every single area of the city. This means, a

patient suffering from a medical emergency is more likely to gain faster and prompt service

from private companies.

2. Better Equipped

Private ambulances are outfitted with expensive, state-of-art equipments to help emergency

medical teams keep their patients alive. Majority of the public hospitals on the other hand

are struggling hard to make the ends meet in order to keep their services affordable.

Equipping an ambulance with special medical equipments can be too expensive for them.

Therefore hiring private ambulance services is way too convenient and secure for

patients with medical emergencies.

3. Specialized and Customized Service

Private ambulance services can efficiently help in extricating morbidly obese people from

buildings. There are patients who have grown very obese because of which they have not

left their bedroom or apartment for years. Such patients require special medical attention

and equipments to extricate them from their houses. Most often the public hospitals do not

have the special equipments as well as training to manage such scenarios. This is when

people generally rely on the services offered by private ambulance companies.

4. Non-Emergency Use

Private ambulance services are even used by people looking for a convenient transportation

for an ill person without any medical emergency. For instance, the private ambulance

services are ideal way to transport an elderly person to a nursing home or to take an

injured patient for a physical therapy session. These simple tasks can prove to be quite

challenging in the absence of right form of assistance. This is why people prefer to use

private ambulance services.

About the Owner:

Dr. Jim Evans practices emergency medicine in Virginia and Maryland. He is the managing

director of Sentinel MED. He oversees a team of medical escorts that is selected for their

experience and knowledge of international medicine and that deploy globally. He has

worked for a large global assistance company for the last decade, providing both direction

for the medical cases and being the medical escorts for our patients who are ill or injured

while away from home.

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