BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - Bensalem EMS have an ambulance that cleans and sanitizes itself to save time when responding to calls and keep patients safe from infectious diseases.Battalion Chief Robert Elliott describes the new ambulance that is designed to keep emergency workers safe while transporting patients."The concept of a highly infectious disease ambulance allows us to protect our providers," he said. "It’s the Ebola disease, anthrax, it was COVID in the beginning.
Any disease where a patient would present with a really high fever and respiratory symptoms which would require isolation."This vehicle is the only "highly infectious disease ambulance" in the entire county."In the 2014 to 2016 Ebola epidemic that hit the U.S.