Countrywide Emergency Medical Service (EMS) coverage may become a reality by 2020 as efforts will be made to expand the service annually, National Medical Director of the EMS Dr Zulfikar Bux has said.
Offering insight into the operations of the two-month-old EMS, the establishment of which was described as the “turning point of EMS development in Guyana,” he said, “We are basically merging everything now so that when you do get medical stabilisation and transport, you have specialist trained in emergency medicine to handle the situation.”
