Welsh Ambulance Service invests in new vehicles

March 13, 2009

New ambulances have been introduced across Wales to help paramedics deal with obese patients.

The vehicles have been specially developed with an extra wide, strengthened stretcher and a winch.

Eight of the ambulances have been deployed in Wales, three each in the south east and north regions and two in central and west Wales.

The Welsh Ambulance Service, which is pioneering the vehicles, said it had seen a 25% increase in obese patients