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| Likas Women and Children's Emergency Medicine speacialist Dr Cheah Phee Kheng (right) is showing the ambulance tracking system to Sabah Health and People's Welllbeing minister Datuk Frankie Poon. – Pic courtesy of Sabah Health and People’s Wellbeing MinistryAdd caption KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has begun a pioneer project of using an ambulance-tracking system for better delivery of healthcare services to the people. Likas Women and Children's hospital emergency medical specialist Dr Cheah Phee Keng said the tracking system would be able to detect the real-time location of each ambulance in the state. "One of the objectives is also for safety, through monitoring the route and speed of the ambulance. "Personnel are also able to report unusual incidents, such as breakdown and driver's status after a long drive, as well as the usage period of particular ambulance services," he said. He was briefing Sabah Health and People's Wellbeing minister Datuk Frankie Poon during his visit to Likas Hospital here yesterday. Dr Cheah explained that medical personnel in the ambulance would enter data into the online system, thus enabling the hospital set to receive the patient to get the latest information. The system will also look into 999 call logs for data collection to identify the types of cases, locations and call times, as well as response time for teams to have better understanding of emergency situations in the state. Besides Likas, the project is also being tested at hospitals in Kota Belud, Kudat, Kuala Penyu and Telupid. Meanwhile, Poon contributed non-medical equipment such as photocopy machines, screens, semi-auto sprayers and batter, cupboards, and monitors, among others, for Likas hospital's trauma and emergency centre, which is being used as a Covid-19 operation centre. |
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