The Cooperation Between Civiuans & Army In Emergency Aid Services (EAS) In Turkey

Abstract

In order to supply emergency services through a rapid and efficient framework and to supply such services with good quality, the integration of our Emergency Ambulance System with the Provincial Health Administration has now been established under the organization of i İzmir Regional Military Hospital' by the name 'Central Emergency Aid Station No.4 (EAS)'; and giving services since 05.02.2003, aiming to coordinate between other emergency services and also to preserve the coordination "in catastrophic incidents. In this study, the emergeney aid services that were performed by the station, which we have mentioned above, are retrospectively examined after the arrangements that were made by 112 Emergency Aid Center, between the dates 05.02.2003 - 31.07.2003. Furthermore, the number of daily events, the average time to reach the events, the distribution of events. in respect of their results and the distribution of events according to the way that they happened, are all analyzed. As a result, this sort of a cooperation between civilians & army is applied for the first time in our country. The integration of the Emergency Ambulance System within the ' 112 Emergency Aid Services' system, under the authority of Military Hospitals in İzmir resulted in logical results that has produced demographic data. Thanks to these data, emergency ambulance system s in major cities can now be handled in order; and all these data demonstrate how efficient, rapid and top quality emergency aid services will be performed.