KUALA LUMPUR – More ambulances are needed to service the Nilai and Mantin areas after a motorist involved in a traffic accident died en route to the hospital, according to Nilai assemblyman J. Arul Kumar.
The DAP politician claimed that emergency responders took nearly an hour to arrive at the scene to attend to the victim.
Arul said he had personally contacted the emergency hotline and spoke with an officer from the Tuanku Jaafar Hospital in Seremban, who informed him that the only available ambulance had just left.
The nearest clinic in Mantin did not have an ambulance available as the driver was being quarantined due to Covid-19, he said.
“This is not the first time such a case has happened in Mantin… If a driver is unable to do work on that day, there must be a replacement driver, and if an ambulance breaks down then there must be a replacement ambulance,” Arul said in his post.
“Because of all these excuses, yet another life was lost, just like that.”
Arul urged the Negri Sembilan health department to take immediate action to provide sufficient ambulance services for the Nilai and Mantin health clinics, which would otherwise have to rely on ambulances based in Seremban that would take at least 30 minutes to arrive.
He said he had already raised this with the top officials in the department, but to no avail.
“I have no issues with any officials, but this is an emergency necessity to ensure lives are saved,” Arul said. – The Vibes, March 28, 2022
