UNICEF na JAPAN kudhamini hakujustfy uhalali wa huu ufukunyuku, kwani hata wewe ukiambiwa umtengenezee panya kitanda utatengeneza kama cha binadamu?
An
ambulance is a
vehicle for transportation of sick or injured people to, from or between places of treatment for an
illness or
injury,[SUP]
[1][/SUP] and in some instances will also provide out of hospital medical care to the patient. The word is often associated with road going
emergency ambulances which form part of an
emergency medical service, administering
emergency care to those with acute medical problems.
The term
ambulance does however extend to a wider range of vehicles other than those with flashing
warning lights and
sirens, including a large number of non-urgent ambulances which are for transport of patients without an urgent acute condition and a wide range of vehicles including trucks, vans, bicycles,
motorbikes, station wagons,
buses,
helicopters,
fixed-wing aircraft,
boats, and even
hospital ships.
The term
ambulance comes from the
Latin word
ambulare, meaning to walk or move about[SUP]
[2][/SUP] which is a reference to early medical care where
patients were moved by lifting or wheeling. The word originally meant a moving hospital, which follows an army in its movements.[SUP]
[3][/SUP] During the
American Civil War vehicles for conveying the wounded off the field of battle were called ambulance wagons.[SUP]
[4][/SUP]
Field hospitals were still called ambulances during the
Franco-Prussian War[SUP]
[5][/SUP] of 1870 and in the Serbo-Turkish war of 1876[SUP]
[6][/SUP] even though the wagons were first referred to as ambulances about 1854 during the
Crimean War.[SUP]
[7][/SUP]
There are other types of ambulance, with the most common being the
patient transport ambulance. These vehicles are not usually (although there are exceptions) equipped with life-support equipment, and are usually crewed by staff with fewer qualifications than the crew of emergency ambulances. Their purpose is simply to transport patients to, from or between places of treatment. In most countries, these are not equipped with flashing lights or sirens. In some jurisdictions there is a modified form of the ambulance used, that only carries one member of ambulance crew to the scene to provide care, but is not used to transport the patient.[SUP]
[8][/SUP] Such vehicles are called
fly-cars. In these cases a patient who requires transportation to hospital will require a patient-carrying ambulance to attend in addition to the fast responder.
