Organization

Ambulance Service
The Ambulance Command operates a fleet of 368 ambulances, 4 mobile casualty treatment centres, four village ambulances and 36 ambulance-aid motorcycles. The provision of full paramedic ambulance service to the community has commenced since 28.2.2005.

In 2014, the Command responded to 747,437 ambulance calls - representing an average of 2,048 calls a day, conveying a total of 671,886 patients or casualties to hospital.

Most of the non-emergency ambulance services were handled by the Hospital Authority. The non-emergency ambulance service originated from private hospitals, Social Welfare Department and Department of Health were handled by the Auxiliary Medical Service.