Holy Week 2012 Duties

One of the busiest EMS duties of Iloilo City Emergency Responders (ICER) was the 2012 Holy week. Request from the different churches all over the City who held mass on the Good Friday and Easter Vigil, different holy week parades, religious programs and re-enactments and jelly ports where ICER dispatch for duties. Good Friday on the jelly port started as early as at 5:00am going towards the island Guimaras for Balaan Bukid. Together at the station where the Iloilo Emergency Radio Communication (IERCom) to help with the communication between the two jelly ports in Guimaras and Iloilo City. In the afternoon of the same day, ICER, IERCom and Guimaras Rescue Groups helped people who going back to the main island. Few were injured but no major injuries were reported on both jelly port. On the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday evening, ICER stand-by station in each major church in the seven district of Iloilo. ICER reported no patient where accounted for. (ebsp)