Help Taxi: First ambulance-taxis on the streets of Greece
The first ambulance-taxis in Europe are on the streets of Greece. They have drivers certified in First Aid and first aid kits. the company is called Help Taxi.
With drivers certified in First Aid, CPR and basic life support and “armed” with defibrillators, oxygen bottle and first aid kits, the ambulance-taxis aim to combine urban transport with medical transport.
Behind this original business idea is Evangelos Gerentes, who is a first aid instructor and has worked for years as a taxi driver, daily ethnos reported.
Speaking to Open TV, Gerentes said that the drivers cannot intervene in injuries.
Gerentes added that they are in a kind of cooperation with the state ambulance service EKAV and that they can intervene in case an ambulance is stuck on the streets due to traffic jams.
He added that the company’s taxis are included in the registry of the general secretariat of the Civil Protection, so that they can be requisitioned in case of natural disasters.
The report did not mention the cost of the service but you can get information at
Help Taxi phone: 210-220 00 20
It is recalled that in recent years, private ambulance services are being offered in the country, however, it happens that they also have no vehicles available in a case of emergency as the EKAV, too.
The most services we have in mind for Emergencies, the better, anyway.
ethnos
