Taipei City’s Emergency Medical Services System (EMSS) last year helped save more than a hundred lives. The city government on Thursday held an award ceremony to express gratitude toward those medical service providers who had contributed to the operation of the EMSS, and celebrate those patients who have been given a second chance of life.
Taipei City Fire Department (TCFD) established regionalized EMSS in five administration offices in Taipei since 2011, in order to implement the bypass principle and deliver injured persons to hospitals in time, according to city government.
The TCFD said today that the five links in the chain of survival relies on the cooperation between the public, the government, and the medical centers. Taipei City is now able to strengthen each link in the chain of survival due to a more comprehensive medical care system since the EMSS integrated into it, the TCFD added. According to the TCFD’s statistics, the EMSS had helped save 102 lives last year.
The EMSS is a system of coordinated response and emergency medical care, which involves multiple people and agencies. One of the features of which, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, is the case entry function of the emergency medical management system, which enables each hospital to report the injured treated in the hospital and helps to monitor the status of the injured as well as the hospitalization and treatment provided in each hospital.
Taipei’s EMSS helped save over a hundred lives: TCFD
