Providing a modern ambulance service was a priority for the new Hospitals Authority, which took charge of the fleet of 64 ambulances in Northern Ireland in 1949. You can read all about it in a book on the history of the health services in the province, Curing & Caring by Alan Elliott.
Copies, price£11.99, are available from the Northern Ireland DHSS Information Office. Tel: 01232524759.
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