L-0.2, r. 2 - Ministerial Order concerning the determining of ambulance service zones and the maximum number of ambulances per area and per zone, the standards for ambulance service subsidies, the standards of transport by ambulance between institutions and rates of transport by ambulance

Section 1 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

1. Determining of ambulance service zones

An ambulance service zone is a territory delimited by one or several municipalities in the same socio-sanitary region.

The dispatching points in such zones are:

— the demographic centre;

— the intersections of major thoroughfares;

— the geographic centre;

— the socio-economic centre;

from where all the municipalized areas of the territory can be reached by ambulance within a maximum limit of 30 minutes from the time of the call, under normal weather and traffic conditions and under standard conditions of roads directly linked to the provincial highways.

The list of ambulance service zones is annexed in Schedule I.

M.O. 84-07-20, s. 1.