Health Services

Emergency Unit

Transport of Patients

It performs other types of services, such as transport for non-urgent patients in the Algarve region
and also on long hauls (Faro – Lisbon), it transports patients to physiotherapy clinics, hemodialysis, hospitals and the transportation of children in the municipality, who need adapted transport to schools.

Emergency Unit
Emergency Unit
Emergency Unit

Consisting of:

  • Local Emergency Coordinator
  • Adj. of Coordinator
  • Team Leader - Logistics and a Team Leader - Planning
  • Over twenty ambulance crew members, Drivers and First Aiders (TAT/TAS).

 

The EU has a type B rescue ambulance (112 INEM) that provides service when requested;

 

Several Type VDTD Ambulances (Vehicles dedicated to patient transport), A1, A2 and B;

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