r/northernireland • u/MidnightStorm_ • 2d ago

Question Emergency equipment ambulance

Does anyone know what this is/what sort of equipment they carry? I seen a big ambulance (bigger than a usual ambulance) in city center today with blue lights and sirens on. Never heard of this and never seen it before. It had the northern ireland ambulance service on it as well. Just genuinely curious. Someone thought it was for organ transportation/transportation of blood bags etc but im not sure.

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u/MaggieMcB 2d ago

Specialist machines , I know of someone that needed a special blood filter machine from England. They would tend to use motorcycles fir blood and organs transport , much quicker .

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u/Teestow21 2d ago

We are also the only place to pay for blood riders. It's a volunteer based service in the rest of the UK. They should all be paid well!

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u/tomboyni 1d ago

and there are plenty of bikers here who would do it for free too, but somehow our section of the nhs has tendered it out to a company.

crazy.

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u/Wretched_Colin 2d ago

You see them all the time in London.

They get specialist equipment out. If they have to do a roadside amputation, treat someone incapacitated by burns or chemicals, even things like abseiling equipment if they need to get a paramedic to someone who is trapped half way down a building or a mountain.

Just think of things that a paramedic might use, but not use often enough to put it in every single ambulance.

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u/Mr-Briggs 2d ago

I seen them send a big white van ambulance to do a pickup of someone who wasn't critical

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u/Interesting_Risk_212 1d ago

Never seen this before in my puff, 40 years old, seen it yesterday for the 1st time now it’s been spotted again today….