Ambulance Service

From the front page of the B&R this week, which the lady in the paper shop was reading when I went in - 'Fear for Powys ambulance' was the headline.
It seems that the ambulance which is at present stationed in Ystradgynlais, in the south of Powys, could be moved to Carmarthen by the Welsh Ambulance Trust.
Carmarthen? That's not even in Powys - and when you read on in the article, the Ystradgynlais ambulance has regularly answered calls all the way up to Rhayader, in the north of the county - and Powys is a big county.
Only 44.6% of ambulances made it to the scene of the emergency within 8 minutes, which is the target time, according to the National Assembly's Statistics department - but I don't see how moving one of the five ambulances providing emergency cover even further away is going to help at all.
It's an impossible target in Powys anyway - the county is big, the population is spread out, and a lot of the roads are narrow and twisty.
"What was wrong with having an ambulance at Bronllys, like it used to be, anyway?" the lady in the paper shop demanded.
And if the Ystradgynlais ambulance answered calls in Brecon 26 times in May, June and July last year - and the Crickhowell ambulance answered 87 calls in Brecon over the same period - what was the Brecon ambulance doing? Is there a Brecon ambulance at all?
It all seems very unsatisfactory.