PARAMEDICS are pleading with Ceredigion residents to better display their house name or number in order to help save lives.

The Welsh Ambulance Service Trust claims they are often wasting valuable time trying to find properties in an emergency, and that the problem is putting people’s lives at risk.

And the Trust is urging householders to help further reduce response times by ensuring that their properties are clearly and prominently identified, and that there is nothing obstructing them.

Richard Lee, head of operations at WAST, said: “We need to get to 999 calls as quickly as possible. Sometimes if a house does not have its name or number clearly displayed, there is a delay in us reaching the patient.

“It is vital that all properties display their name or number clearly and that it is visible from the road.

“Our control rooms have digital mapping systems to find addresses but in a life-threatening emergency it’s a good idea to send somebody outside to flag the ambulance or response car down. In these cases, sometimes seconds save lives.”

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