The ambulance which collided into a truck injuring the driver and attendant after its brakes reportedly failed was only acquired by the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) this year.
Last Thursday, as Sandor Walcott and an attendant were heading to Ogle to pick up a patient, the brakes of the vehicle failed and it collided into a truck which was waiting at a stop light at Conversation Tree junction. This was according to Walcott.
Yesterday, the GPH’s Public Relations Officer Alero Proctor said the hospital’s mechanic is currently examining the vehicle in relation to the driver’s claims. She said the ambulance was one of two which the hospital bought in January this year.
While the vehicles were not used immediately after their purchase, the PRO said all ambulances are serviced every 3,000 kilometres and further, have to meet the required fitness by the police before they can be on the road.
As for the patient who was supposed to be picked up, another vehicle had to do the job. Walcott meanwhile remains a patient of the hospital and is maintaining that the vehicle stopped working. He said that only the steering wheel moved but the wheels did not and the brakes did not work.
