Along spike in COVID-19 cases RI, there is confusion about empty ambulances milling about in the neighborhood where residents live to scare people. It’s true, the empty ambulance really exists. But straightened out, the ambulance was milling about not to scare, but indeed there was a specific purpose.
A volunteer driver ambulance COVID-19, Antonius answered netizens’ anxiety. Through a thread on his Twitter account @CristantoDN, Antonius straightened out that an empty ambulance that turned on a siren when it drove in the area where residents lived aimed to pick up corpses or patients. COVID-19 who need emergency help, for example because of shortness of breath.
“Yes, we turn on the siren so that the sick family or neighbor hears the ambulance has arrived and directs our crew to the house in question. It saves a lot of time and may mean a lot to him who is fighting for his life with COVID,” he wrote, quoted with his permission, Sunday. (18/7/2021).
Regarding ambulances traveling in groups, Antonius explained that this was because there were 3 types of ambulance crews, namely for starting and cleaning, as well as environmental decontamination.
When the body is in the coffin and ready to be buried, only 1 ambulance driver and the body may be in the ambulance. Other crew members were not allowed to enter the same ambulance, so they had to sit next to each other in the other ambulance.
What should people do if people suspect that the ambulance is a ‘fake’?
Antonius emphasized that ambulances are now a necessity, not a boon. He recalled that the people who are now working in COVID-19 ambulances are volunteers who are not actually ambulance drivers, but lecturers, employees, religious teachers, COVID-19 Task Force officers, and others.
“If there is a suspicious ambulance, just stop and ask where it is going, look for who. Let everything be clear. Who knows, bring stones or machetes and kelewang. If there are indications of a crime, report it to the Police or Babinsa,” he concluded.
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