16 - Treatment and care.

§ 16. Treatment and care. A volunteer ambulance worker injured in line  of  duty  shall  be  entitled  to  receive medical, surgical, podiatric,  chiropractic, psychological and other attendance  and  treatment,  nurse  and  hospital  service, medicine, crutches, artificial members, devices,  appliances, and apparatus, including the replacement and repair thereof,  for such period as the nature of the injury or the process  of  recovery  may require and the political subdivision or volunteer ambulance company  liable  for  the  payment  of benefits to the volunteer ambulance worker  under this chapter because of such injury shall be liable  therefor  and  the  cost  thereof  shall  be  audited,  raised  and paid as provided in  section thirty of this chapter. The provisions of sections  thirteen  to  thirteen-m,  both  inclusive,  and sections nineteen to nineteen-b, both  inclusive, of the workers' compensation law, to  the  extent  that  such  provisions  are  not inconsistent with this chapter, shall be applicable  in  relation  to  any  injured  volunteer  ambulance  worker,  political  subdivision and third persons as fully as if set forth in this chapter.