All of Gauteng’s public emergency services now run by provincial health dept

To ensure efficiency and improve emergency response times, emergency ambulance services in Gauteng are now run entirely by the provincial Department of Health.

The department said the process to provincialise Emergency Medical Services was completed by the acquisition of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality’s EMS. A total of 800 people are expected to be employed on a permanent basis over the next 12 months through the provincialisation of Ekurhuleni EMS.

The Gauteng executive council decided to provincialise EMS in 2009 in order to improve efficiencies with regards to quality service provision and achieve a seamless EMS operation, Kekana added.Kekana said the move was in line with Act 108 of 1996 Schedule 4 of the Constitution which provides that healthcare services are a concurrent competence of national and provincial government and further, the national health Act provides that EMS is a provincial competence.

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