Pre-hospital care is a part of emergency medical services that is responsible for the initial care provided to patients in the pre-hospital environment. It is an important component of the general health system that is vital in order to improve health outcomes of time-sensitive illnesses. As part of the emergency services, appropriate and adequate prep-hospital care may significantly decrease or at most prevent morbidity and mortality of patients. After seeing the documentary Ambulansya-de-paa, I can say that the concept of pre-hospital care and even emergency medicine in general, still has its public health component as these are directly affected by accessibility to health care.
In line with the principles of universal health coverage which aims to provides quality, accessible, and equitable health programs to Filipinos, I believe that there are a lot of improvements to be done in our current pre-hospital care system in order to achieve the ideal situation of “Health for all"