Jumbulance

Jumbulance

Jumbulance

British charitable organisation

The Jumbulance Trust is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom that transports sick and disabled people for holidays and pilgrimages on ambulance buses. The concept was devised by Richard Glitheroe and his wife, a hospice doctor, as a means of conveying sick and disabled people on pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France.

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Its ambulance buses are named Jumbulances, and are based upon luxury coaches with facilities such as platform lifts, medical supplies, on-board toilets, and space for stretcher beds and wheelchairs.[1][2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Jumbulance is part ambulance, part holiday coach (From Romsey Advertiser)". Romseyadvertiser.co.uk. 12 March 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Jumbulance sets off for Lourdes pilgrimage". Northants ET. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
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