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Controversy over plans to chop Loulé’s heli-ambulance
The Algarve’s PSD deputies, Mendes Bota and Elsa Cordeiro, have questioned the government over plans to take INEM’s helicopter-ambulance (stationed at Loulé) out of nighttime service in the Algarve. The chopper serves the whole region, as well as that of the Lower Alentejo.
Edition 710 ( 5 Jan 2012), 
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An end of its valuable nighttime services “will not only impact on serious accidents and casualties, but also on the Algarve’s image as a safe tourist destination”, argue the deputies, saying the decision also comes at a time when the EN 125 is over-congested due to the introduction of tolls on the motorway.
It was only recently that Loulé Borough Council invested €800.000 in the heliport (70% of which came from the EC) to GUARANTEE nighttime service, as requested by INEM itself…
