Emergencies only: 226-0911

Living in paradise, it is easy to forget how quickly a medical emergency can arise. Fortunately, San Carlos has RESCATE!! RESCATE provides emergency first aid medical care and ambulance service to San Carlos residents and visitors alike. The bi-lingual staff is on 24-hour call, and professionally trained in advanced and basic life support, CPR, first aid, and special rescue and transportation techniques. RESCATE has its own premises including two well equipped emergency first-aid treatment rooms, which are supported by four fully equipped ambulances. We are an urgent/emergency care facility and not a medical clinic. A doctor is always on call for a fee or patients can be directed to a physician of their choice. Emergencies beyond the scope of Rescate are normally transported immediately to a facility in Guaymas.

Now in its fourth decade of operation, RESCATE first opened in 1978 in a single donated room with two volunteers using a converted personal van for an ambulance.  RESCATE is a Mexican nonprofit corporation, governed by an elected Board of Directors, all volunteers and residents of San Carlos.  RESCATE is entirely self-supporting and is funded through memberships, donations and the activities of the RESCATE auxiliary. Contributions for RESCATE are tax-deductable to the donor if made to Rescate Services, Inc., our U.S. counterpart recognized by the IRS (see “Donations” for details).