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mobilized on the road due to sickness or injury, giving birth, or other causes, they can dial 119 for help.
Once the Rescue Command Center receives a report, a team of emergency medical technicians and am-
bulances will be dispatched immediately to aid at the scene. The number of emergency medical services
dispatched and the annual average is 1,091,050 from 2012 to 2021, and the number of people sent to the

hospital is shown in Figure 9-1.

Statistics of the number of people sent by emergency ambulances to hospitals by fire-
Figure 9-1
fighting agencies nationwide from 2012 to 2021
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The number of people sent to hospitals
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
The number of people sent to
hospitals-total 826 076 826 839 878 849 891 562 906 603 891 508 897 081 905 951 891 117 881 766
The number of people sent to
hospitals-car accident 315 359 316 353 335 440 337 818 331 082 330 725 331 341 323 321 315 190 282 977
The number of people sent to
hospitals-acute diseasesmedical 289 864 280 607 304 200 304 795 324 442 320 221 323 111 331 943 314 581 327 017
emergency
The number of people sent to
hospitals- general trauma and 76 631 80 237 85 138 88 262 92 724 91 630 96 673 102 164 58 080 38 888
injury caused by failing
The number of people sent to
hospitals- Falling on the Road 16 302 16 788 15 743 14 385 13 708 12 504 11 146 10 470 9 270 9 333
The number of people sent to
hospitals-others 127 920 132 854 138 328 146 302 144 647 136 428 134 810 138 053 193 996 223 551
Note: "Others" includes cardiac arrest, epilepsy spasm, burns, suspected drug poisoning and suspected CO poisoning, etc.
2. Promotion of Nationwide Emergency Medical Service Publicity

To recognize the efforts of medical personnel, personnel are honored with merit commendations
for their lifesaving work. On September 9, 2021 " EMS Day ", the "2021 EMS Day Outstanding Person-
nel Commendation Activity and Theme Seminar" was held, with the theme of " EMS starts from the
ringing of the bell" through the promotional video to show the professionalism of the EMS personnel,
let the public feel the perspective of the EMS personnel to achieve the goal of cherishing the precious

EMS resources together.

3. Selection of Nationwide EMS Volunteer Elites

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