PH Red Cross ready for May 12 polls

The Manila Times

PH Red Cross ready for May 12 polls  Philippine Red Cross Chairman and CEO Richard Gordon says the agency is ready to respond to any incident during the National and Local Elections on May 12. Gordon made the assurance at a press conference at the PRC headquarters on May 9, 2025.    Video by Allen Limos  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #themanilatimes #tmtnews #philippines

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00:00government to secure the elections. We are just subsidiary. We have 179 ambulances and about 20

00:07emergency response vehicles. So we are ready to respond just in case you're called.

00:17The trick here is dial 143 because we cannot possibly go to all the 109 or 150,000 electoral

00:26precincts there are. So the important thing is the public realizes that we have chapters in every

00:33province and that the number to call is 143 so that the central operations office which is here

00:41can direct the chapters to send the ambulances in the area. In some areas, for example, we will

00:47anticipate that by experience, Arimbawa, one province, and I don't want to say it because I don't want to

00:55destroy the reputation of any province who made previous incidents done related to election violence

01:05or for that matter MPA or other situations that we think might invite terrorist behavior. We will prepare

01:19for that. But again, principal responsibility for security elections belongs to the Convalet and that

01:26the government has the armed forces and the police to do that. We are here to augment by way of acting

01:32as an auxiliary. We are preparing first aiders so that we can pick them up and we only use the rule of

01:39thumb of the history of elections, the history of political violence, the history of terrorist violence

01:45violence that will, you know, allow us to be able to respond. Now in this operation center, we know all

01:53the hospitals. We know where all the hospitals are so any Red Cross ambulance will know or be directed

02:00to the nearest ambulance, especially those specializing in mortal wounds. But the nice thing about the ambulance

02:10of the Red Cross is we have ventilators, we have defibrillators, life extenders, if you will, with nurses

02:18and we would have a doctor assigned here. Or if he's not here, we would know how to call him so that they

02:23would be able to advise what kind of reaction there will be on the part of the ambulance. So I guess

02:30that's what we have to say. It's really cut and dried. We're not taking it for granted. The Red Cross never

02:36takes anything for granted. The Red Cross overprepares. Better to, you know, be alert, prepare for the worst,

02:45and hope for the best.

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