Negril Ambulance

[TAH]

There are four private companies that I am in contact with at the moment. Two are "membership" type services, and they need to determine how they would handle "short term" members. I have explained that many of you come here more than once a year, so there are many factors they need to take into account before they can come up with prices. One has the idea to offer it as a form of "travel insurance" type of thing, and they are checking with their legal department and actuaries on how to make this work.

All the companies service prices are based on the severity of the incident, for instance a heart attack would be treated much differently than car accident and also the distance that needs to be travelled.

But they all would expect payment, or at least proof that payment can be made before services are rendered. Until I get the details directly from each of the companies, there is not much I can post at this point.

To find the private ambulance services, you can use the Jamaica Yellow Pages as suggested or simply google "negril jamaica private ambulance" just as I did to find out who services Negril. One of the companies want to respond directly here and I am working with them on making this happen.

Getting the correct information to all is important.

Excuse my ignorance on this, but if one company wants to respond here, then why can't they just do that?

[Rob]

Excuse my ignorance on this, but if one company wants to respond here, then why can't they just do that?

It's a rather large company. They have never done anything like this before, so they need to have whatever they post approved by some committee and their legal department I would assume. Who knows how long that will take.

These companies may even be working on partnering with other foreign insurance companies. There can be a lot involved. Other than one company, they were rather surprised when I showed them the tourism interest. They were created to serve the needs of the local residents and marketing to visitors to the island is a new thing for them.

[TAH]

It's a rather large company. They have never done anything like this before, so they need to have whatever they post approved by some committee and their legal department I would assume. Who knows how long that will take.

These companies may even be working on partnering with other foreign insurance companies. There can be a lot involved. Other than one company, they were rather surprised when I showed them the tourism interest. They were created to serve the needs of the local residents and marketing to visitors to the island is a new thing for them.

Gotcha, thanks. That makes sense.