NewsWhore
04-02-2007, 06:50 PM
With AMET troops and their breathalyzers, Civil Defense volunteers and their flags, the meteorological office and their predictions of good weather and the National Emergency Commission's closure of 117 beaches and swimming areas, preparations for a safer Easter Week are under way. Even the First Lady and her office are assisting in the efforts to keep the death toll down. PROMESE, the government's pharmacy, has provided RD$4.0 million in first aid medicines to the different aid stations set up along the highways. The National Emergency Commission has 125 ambulances, three mobile hospitals and three helicopters ready for action. Last year's toll was fifty deaths and more than 200 injured in holiday-related incidents. AMET said that it would have 1,200 officers and its entire fleet of tow trucks and ambulances ready for action. The Dominican Red Cross has 5,000 volunteers stationed at 410 posts, 70 vehicles, including 40 ambulances available for service the whole week.
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