Section 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.