Change is coming for the ambulance service

The long-running effort to create a national ambulance agency took a big step forward last month, with the House health committee debating a bill aimed at establishing it.

The bill, approved by the cabinet in December, comes as the number of non-emergency patient transports has exploded, from 5,000 in 2020 to 45,000 in 2025, according to the ambulance service.

For all that, stakeholders – even Osak, the federation for patients’ rights – seem to agree that there’s no immediate crisis in the ambulance sector...