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Any person who is sick, injured or in distress must receive appropriate assistance as quickly as possible, regardless of where they are." The task is great, but Valais is large. In order to be able to respond as closely as possible to this ideal, the State of Valais, through the 1996 law on relief, created the Valais Cantonal Relief Organization and entrusted it with several tasks. These missions were specified in the new law and ordinance on the organization of health relief of 2016. The OCVS provides all the services entrusted to it by the State of Valais, including: Periodic assessment of pre-hospital and health needs and submission of planning measures to the Council of State Implementation of the relief planning adopted by the Council of State Handling all emergency health calls in both French and German Ensuring the smooth running of relief interventions, in coordination with other intervention forces, and the operation of the 144 center Basic and ongoing training for health emergency regulators and responders hired by 144 Quality control of the services provided in the field of relief by setting up a system for recording interventions allowing statistical analyses to be carried out Informing the population about access to the emergency care system The Valais Cantonal Relief Organization fulfills other missions such as participation in medical regulation, regulation of non-urgent transfers, advice on health arrangements during events, etc. However, these tasks must not disrupt the performance of the main missions.