Twenty new ambulances arrived at the National Ambulance Service (OMSZ) on Tuesday, and another 42 vehicles will be received in the next few days, reducing the average age of ambulances to 4.8 years.
Miklós Kásler, the Minister of Human Resources, stated at the handover in Budapest on Tuesday: the ambulance stock has been renewed, the government has practically replaced a thousand vehicles since 2010. The ambulances were also equipped with modern equipment.
Compared to 2010, the government doubled the support of the OMSZ; In 2010, there were 223 rescue stations in the country, of which more than 100 were renovated and modernized by the government, and another 30 new rescue stations were handed over, and 12 rescue points were established, he said.
Miklós Kásler congratulated all the employees of the OMSZ for their extremely conscientious and self-sacrificing work. Gábor Csató, the director general of the OMSZ, said that 82 new ambulances were purchased last year, of which 20 have now arrived.
In addition to the fact that the fleet was renewed in the last ten years, work clothes were changed and rescue stations were renovated, and rescue was digitalized, and now artificial intelligence helps them make decisions, he said.
Gábor Csató emphasized: OMSZ is the largest medical institution in Hungary, which operates a fleet of about a thousand vehicles.
According to the published press material, the government planned to purchase 624 ambulances for the OMSZ between 2017 and 2021. So far, 543 have been produced, and 42 more will arrive at OMSZ in the coming days.
Author: Source: MTI/Hírek Plusz
Cover photo: Zsolt Szigetváry/MTI
