SINGAPORE: Non-emergency calls and false alarms to the Singapore Civil Defence Force's (SCDF's) Emergency Ambulance Service have fallen.
SCDF said the number of non-emergency calls went down by 165
cases to some 2,300 last year. The number of false alarms also dropped,
by about 23 per cent to about 3,300.
SCDF said the fall is encouraging as more ambulances could then be channelled to handle life threatening cases.
Meanwhile, the number of emergency calls rose by two per cent to 113,300 cases.
More than 70 per cent were medical cases involving chest pain and
breathlessness. About 10 per cent were road traffic accidents and 18
per cent were related to industrial accidents, falls and assaults.
SCDF's Emergency Ambulance Service responded to some 118,900 calls in 2009.
- CNA/sc