24 minutes for 12 yuan toll ambulance theory.
An ambulance driver in Leshan thinks that it should be free to pass through the expressway. The Provincial Senior Management Bureau said that there is no free passage for ambulances in Sichuan at present.
Is there a convention?
Master Liu, who drives an ambulance, said that when patients are usually transported to Leshan and Chengdu and pass through Leshan Toll Station of Chengle Expressway and Chengdu Toll Station of Chengya Expressway, as long as the toll collectors are told about the situation on the car, the toll collectors will release them free of charge.
Look at the mood?
Master Liu also said that before the ambulance in the hospital carried patients through the Leya Expressway and the Jiangnan Toll Station and the Mucheng Toll Station, sometimes there was a charge and sometimes there was no charge. "I feel that there is no standard, depending on the mood of the toll collector."
Neither.
The stationmaster of the toll station said that according to the company’s regulations, a green channel will be opened for ambulances carrying critically ill patients. The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Senior Management Bureau said that the relevant regulations do not stipulate that ambulances are exempt from road tolls.
On December 11th, Jiajiang County Chinese Medicine Hospital of Leshan City sent an ambulance to pick up a car accident victim from the countryside and return to the hospital. Unexpectedly, when the ambulance was about to leave the toll station in the south of the Yangtze River in Leya Expressway, the driver and the toll collector disagreed about whether to pay the toll in 12 yuan. The ambulance carrying the injured stopped for 24 minutes, and finally the ambulance left the toll booth after the injured family paid the fee.
In this regard, the person in charge of Jiajiang County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine responded that the ambulance parking theory is really inappropriate and has criticized and educated the drivers involved, but at the same time, it also called for the unified implementation of the free pass policy for ambulances to gain time for saving lives.
The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Senior Management Bureau said that according to the relevant regulations of the State Council and Sichuan, ambulances are not required to be exempted from paying road tolls.
"Let me go at once!"
Ambulances want to be free
The toll collector will not release it.
In the past few days, a photo of an ambulance stranded in a toll station has been circulated on the Internet. According to netizens, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on December 11th, an ambulance carrying critically ill patients went from Mucheng to Jiajiang County. When passing through Jiajiang South Toll Station, the toll station staff asked 120 ambulances to pay tolls, resulting in 120 ambulances staying at the toll station for a long time.
On-site monitoring of Jiajiang South Toll Station of Leya Expressway shows that at 14: 41 on December 11th, an ambulance of Jiajiang County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine with the license plate number of Sichuan LLZ120 drove the patient into the toll station, and the toll showed that 12 yuan toll should be paid.
"quick! There is a car accident patient in my car, let me go at once! " The ambulance driver put down the window and asked the toll collector to release it immediately for free, but the toll booth staff said, "According to the regulations, ambulances are not free, and you can’t leave until you pay!" Should I pay the fee after all? Both sides have their own opinions, and the toll collector will not let them go, and the ambulance will not pay.
The surveillance video shows that the driver got off the bus and took a photo in front of the car, and then got on the bus. Seeing that the two sides have been deadlocked is not the way. In the end, the family members of the patients in the ambulance paid the toll of 12 yuan, and the toll collector lifted the pole to release them. At 15: 05, the ambulance left the toll booth.
"According to the usual practice, it should not be collected."
Usually transported to Leshan Chengdu.
The driver said that it will be released free of charge.
On December 15th, Chengdu Business Daily reporter contacted Master Liu, the ambulance driver.
"Ambulances carrying patients should not be charged according to the usual practice." Master Liu has been driving an ambulance for many years. He told the Chengdu Business Daily reporter that patients are usually transported to Leshan and Chengdu. When passing through Leshan Toll Station of Chengle Expressway and Chengdu Toll Station of Chengya Expressway, as long as the toll collectors are told about the situation on the car, the toll collectors will be released free of charge, but the empty cars will take the initiative to pay according to regulations.
Master Liu said that before the ambulance in the hospital carried patients through Jiajiangnan toll station and Mucheng toll station, sometimes there was a charge and sometimes there was no charge. "I feel that there is no standard, depending on the mood of the toll collector."
"It’s not that the hospital can’t afford the toll, and it can be reimbursed when it is taken back." Mr. Huang, the person in charge of the ambulance fleet of Jiajiang County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that considering the public welfare of first aid, it would be beneficial to improve the efficiency of first aid if the expressway exempted ambulances from tolls and set up green passages.
"Green channel depends on the situation"
Mainly depends on the judgment of toll collectors.
Is the patient in the car in critical condition?
Chao Huang, the stationmaster of the Jiangnan Toll Station of Leya Expressway, said that the state did not expressly stipulate that ambulances would not be charged.
However, Chao Huang said that according to the company’s regulations, for the sake of saving lives first, the toll station will open a green channel for ambulances carrying critically ill patients and release them free of charge.
How does the toll collector judge whether the patient in the car is in critical condition? Chao Huang said that it depends mainly on the human judgment of toll collectors, such as whether the ambulance sounds the siren all the way, whether the ambulance personnel in the car are carrying out rescue, and the facial expressions of medical staff and patients’ families, etc., which can roughly judge whether the patient is in critical condition. "On that day, the driver would rather spend more than 20 minutes theorizing and not paying the fee. It can be seen that the car was not a critically ill patient at that time."
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Hospital:
Has seriously criticized the driver involved.
Call for ambulances to be unified and free.
Ambulances were stranded in toll stations due to charging problems, which caused many netizens to dispute. Many netizens believe that it is obviously against professional ethics for ambulance drivers to pester the toll booth for the sake of 12 yuan’s toll, regardless of the life safety of the patients in the car. The disagreement over whether to charge fees should be put aside first, and rescuing patients should be put in the first place.
On December 15th, Zhu Chuangye, president of Jiajiang County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that it was really inappropriate for drivers to stop for ambulances carrying patients, regardless of whether the expressway should be charged or not. As an ambulance driver, we should race against time to send the patient safely to the destination hospital, and should not delay the time artificially.
Zhu Chuangye said that the condition of the injured in the ambulance on that day was not critical and life-threatening. The driver thought that the ambulance carrying the patient should not be charged according to the usual practice, so the parking theory was carried out. "This is only a case, and we have seriously criticized and educated the driver."
In addition, Zhu Chuangye appealed that at present, ambulances with first aid tasks are free in some places, and fees are charged in other places. Relevant departments should issue unified regulations and implement free access for ambulances on expressways.
Provincial Senior Management Bureau:
Free of road tolls?
The relevant regulations do not stipulate
Because there is no explicit provision in the country, the issue of whether ambulances charge tolls varies from place to place. Guangdong, Heilongjiang and Beijing have successively issued notices stipulating that the toll of 120 ambulances with fixed devices will be reduced or exempted.
The relevant person in charge of the Expressway Administration Bureau of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Transportation said that according to the Regulations on the Management of Toll Roads issued by the State Council in 2004 and the Regulations on Expressway of Sichuan Province issued by Sichuan in 2015, ambulances were not exempted from paying road tolls.
In addition, Chengya Expressway and Chengle Expressway mentioned by Master Liu belong to Sichuan Chengyu Expressway Co., Ltd. The relevant person in charge of the company said that in line with the sense of social responsibility, the company has given certain authority to its subordinate toll stations, and ambulances carrying urgent and serious patients can be given free passage for quick passage. (Reporter Gu Aigang Yan Dan)
