Ambulances

Port authority to acquire 11 boats for transfer of patients from islands

The port authority is set to acquire 11 boats that will be used to transfer patients from islands to hospitals, under an agreement signed on Monday between Maritime Affairs and Island Policy Minister Christos Stylianides and the Greek subsidiary of a Danish maritime safety equipment manufacturer.

Acquisition of 1,358 new ambulances with European funds, 1,122 vehicles already delivered

Minister of Development, Public Works and Administration, Cseke Attila, signed today seven additional contracts worth a combined of approximately 559 million lei for the purchase of 1,358 medical vehicles under the Regional Operational Program (ROP) 2014 - 2020.

Bulgaria: Tin-Can Ambulances Transport Patients without Changing Seat Covers

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted not only the problems in hospital and pre-hospital care in our country, but also enabled fraudsters to profit on the backs of patients. It turns out that in Bulgaria the so-called "tin-can" decrepit cars are found not only among taxis, but also among ambulances.

Hospital staff produced isolation stretchers from waste materials

Seven technical staff working in a hospital in the eastern province of Erzurum produced a stretcher made up entirely of waste materials for use in the fight with the COVID-19 outbreak.

Technicians aim to prevent the transmission of the virus to the people around, especially healthcare workers, with the "closed isolation stretcher" they produced.

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