2021-05-25 08:05:42 GMT2021-05-25 16:05:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WELLINGTON, May 25 (Xinhua) New Zealand s air ambulances have provided faster service thanks to the government s funding of their upgrading, showed official data on Tuesday.
Government funding of 82.9 million NZ dollars (59.9 million U.S. dollars) in Budget 2018 saw the replacement of single-engine helicopters with larger, safer and faster twin-engine machines and the expansion of the national Air Desk, which manages and co-ordinates the 24-hour seven-day service, Health Minister Andrew Little said in a statement after releasing new data about the country s ambulance service. In April this year, 89 percent of emergency air ambulance helicopter missions took off within 10 minutes of being called to respond to a serious incident during the day, Little said, adding two-and-a-half years ago, just 60 percent of flights took off within 10 minutes.
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