Latest in ambulanceWhen a powerful earthquake struck Cebu in September 2025, the provincial governor made a single call to every mayor in the province. Because every municipality now had a PCSO patient transport vehicle, every single one was able to send an ambulance to the disaster site. This produced what PCSO…
A mayor in the Philippines refused to accept a patient transport vehicle from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) because of political differences with the administration. The PCSO responded by finding a willing barangay captain in the same area who accepted the unit on behalf of the…
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has distributed approximately 1,800 patient transport vehicles in the first three years of the Marcos administration, more than triple the roughly 600 units that previous administrations gave over an entire six-year presidential term. PCSO General…
Philippine Red Cross Chairman and former Senator Richard Gordon wants to more than double the organization’s ambulance fleet—from 180 to 400 units—to ensure every Filipino can be reached in an emergency. Gordon laid out the expansion target in an interview on DZRH News program Special on Saturday…
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) is pushing wider enrollment in its Safe Card membership program, which provides accident-related ambulance service, blood supply, hospitalization allowance, and insurance coverage for P1,200 a year per member. PRC Chairman and former Senator Richard Gordon promoted…
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