Falck' ambulance service in city

H.D.H Senewiratne

World's top ambulance service provider 'Falck' will start its operations here to provide speedy emergency care medical service to local patients. The service provides the patient with all emergency care subjected to 100 percent European standards.

"We have registered as a BOI company under Med1 (Pvt) Limited and currently serving Colombo and suburbs and hope to expand its service throughout the country," its CEO/Managing Director Donnie Woodyard told Daily News Business.

He said this type of ambulance service is only found in Europe and USA and all their ambulances are fixed with all sophisticated equipment to provide any emergency service initially focused to Colombo metropolitan areas. He said that they intend to invest US $ five million during the next

few years and hope to import more ambulances in the future apart from 15 ambulances in their fleet.MED1 Chief Medical Officer Dr Steve Cockeram said these ambulances are especially designed to treat patient any medical condition with large size vehicles with specially trained staff including doctors.

He said that cost of an ambulance would be US $ 75,000 and will provide high quality service and affordable charges for local patients. Falck is currently operating in almost all the European countries and US is present in 33 countries including Sri Lanka, he said. Med1 is a Sri Lankan based company which merged with Falck recently.