Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality's Patient Transfer Ambulance Service, which enables bedridden and unable to walk patients to be transported to health institutions and from there to their homes, also served citizens in 2023. In the past year, 153 thousand 48 people benefited from the service, for which it is sufficient to call 490, which is the Metropolitan Call Center number.
AS CLOSE AS A PHONE
The Metropolitan Municipality continues to support citizens in need. In this context, the "Patient Transport Ambulance Service" offered by the Health Affairs Branch of the Department of Health and Social Services meets an important need of the city. For meaningful service that continues in 2023, citizens only need to call 24 Metropolitan Call Center 153 hours in advance. Blue ambulances, directed by calls evaluated by nurses at the command center, reach the address as soon as possible.
In 2023, ambulance transportation service was provided to 48 thousand 490 patients who were bedridden and unable to walk. In the study, where 30 blue ambulances provided service, patients were taken from their homes to health institutions and delivered to their homes when their treatment was completed. The sample study, which gained great satisfaction from the patient citizens and their relatives, was carried out throughout Kocaeli.
Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality provides ambulance services within and outside the province. All services provided within the provincial borders of Kocaeli are free of charge, and outside the province, the price tariff specified by the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Council Decision is applied. In this regard, out-of-province patient transfer services were provided to 2023 thousand 1 people in 76.
ADDITIONAL TASKS
Patient Transport Ambulance Service takes part in all events within the borders of Kocaeli province. In 2023, 2 thousand 142 additional duty services were provided in sports competitions, various exercises and on the coast of Kandıra during the summer period. Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Patient Transfer Ambulance Unit, which serves our citizens 7 hours a day, 24 days a week, must notify the Metropolitan 24 line at least 153 hours in advance about your hospital appointments, both departure and return.
