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Red Cross condemns ambulance misuse by drunk youths

Red Cross condemns ambulance misuse by drunk youths
Redcross’ E-Plus emergency vehicles

Emergency-Plus Medical Services(E-PLUS) has condemned the use of its ambulance to ferry drunk youths during curfew hours.

E-plus, a subsidiary of Kenya Red Cross Society was responding to critics after a viral video showed their ambulance ferrying drunk youths.

Reports indicate that an E-Plus staff instructed a paramedic to pick his drunk son in an ambulance from a location where he was partying with four others.

In the video, the youths are seen bragging and asking “who is the patient?”

In the statement, E-Plus said “preliminary investigations show that in the evening of April 17, an ambulance was deployed for purposes other than provision of pre-hospital services. The individuals carried in the ambulance were not in need of any hospital services. This was in violation of our standards& protocals for service and the laws of Kenya(sic)”

E-plus further said they have taken a disciplinary step against the staff who instructed the ambulance to pick his drunk son citing deliberate misuse of ambulance services in such a critical period.

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Njange Maina is a journalist by profession with a degree in Journalism from the Multimedia University of Kenya. He is currently pursuing a micro-masters degree in Digital Branding and Marketing. He is interested in digital media, human interest stories, and business journalism.

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