Overview

• Mendoza’s SEC fleet increased from 22 to 34 vehicles with the delivery of 12 mobile intensive care units equipped with advanced life-support gear.
• A complexity-based color scheme—yellow and red for high, yellow and white for medium, green and white for low—has been applied to all SEC ambulances for rapid visual triage.
• Ambulance coordination is being centralized under the SEC, replacing the previous model where hospitals and health centers managed deployments independently.
• Officials note that some of the new high-complexity units require maintenance before entering full service as part of a phased rollout.
• A bill creating a técnico en emergentología career is being prepared to professionalize ambulance teams and meet growing emergency-call demand.