A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

The present invention relates to a medical-incident response-vehicle system. The system includes a hand-held communications device for generating a medical incident alarm to be sent over a data communications network. The alarm includes a location of the device. The system includes a monitoring station for receiving the medical incident alarm. An incident response vehicle is provided for being deployed on instructions from the monitoring station to the location of the device. In one embodiment, the monitoring station and incident response vehicle are commercial entities, and not government entities. Advantageously, staff of the monitoring station and incident response vehicle may be bilingual, speaking English to communicate with a subscriber undergoing a medical incident as well as the foreign language of the country in which the subscriber is located to facilitate communication with hospital staff.