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Head Physician Under Helmet

Set up at, and operated by, Paks NPP Fire Service, NPP Ambulance Service management congratulated with all solemnity Head Physician dr. Miklós Ótos, head of NPP Ambulance Service and Nukleo-Med Kft., on the occasion of his retirement as of April 1. dr. László Brázay will succeed him in this position.
Head of the Security Service Department of ATOMIX Kft., Fire Chief Péter Bőhm was the first to address a speech to those present at the ceremony held on March 17, 2010. As the next speaker, dr. Miklós Ótos expressed his thanks to the colleagues for all their work, handing over a farewell gift to them and recalling memories of the cooperation with Fire Department and Hungarian National Ambulance Service (OMSZ). Then, Regional Executive Medical Director dr. Péter Buda, the head of South Transdanubian Regional Organization of Hungarian National Ambulance Service, and CEO János Süli from Paks Nuclear Power Plant Zrt. expressed their appreciation for the many years of Ótos’ dedicated work. The climax of the event was the “crowning” of dr. Miklós Ótos with firemen’s Dress Helmet that he was proud to take over from the hands of Péter Bőhm and put on.
Head physician dr. Miklós Ótos has about 20 years of a close working relationship with NPP Fire Service, while he has already been working for Paks Nuclear Power Plant for nearly 30 years.
- How do you look back on those 30 years at NPP and what do they mean for you, Mr. Ótos?
- “It was on December 15, 1980 that I joined the Plant. It’s quite difficult for me to give you a brief summary of three decades because so much happened, but I can surely say that it has been the most wonderful journey of hard work in my life. Back then when I was requested to take on the position as Head Physician they reassured me that it wouldn’t be more than 2 years to work hard and right then I could have a rest. So, it’s been since then I’m just waiting for the end of those first 2 years, by now expanded to 30. I have always had to face so many new professional challenges that I had no choice but to assume and meet. In my opinion, a life in service scores higher the more it is about extra dedication beyond the job profile in a narrow sense. The Plant’s financial support and demanding expectations have always incited and allowed me to work to my high professional ambitions, and to be able to meet work challenges.”
- Besides your professional work, you had a key role in reorganization of the health service into an incorporated economic entity and establishment of NPP Ambulance Service. What challenges do you think this role posed for you?
- “In my view, all job tasks raise challenges, as well. The setting up of the new company required lots of preparations in both professional and legal terms, and we had to work much on budgeting as well as on the design and implementation of operations. With generous resources from the Plant, our daily work tasks had been performed without any major problem up to 1995, the year of starting the company. However, the newly established firm (‘Atom-Med’ in the beginning, and then ‘Nukleo-Med’) required quite new work and management styles to be practiced. Working within constraints imposed by contracts, we have learned how to manage an organization thriftily and open up new pecuniary resources through new activities.”
- How would you characterize your relations with the National Ambulance Service?
- “Right in the very beginning, we decided to put our relations with OMSZ on a basis of mutual cooperation. To this end, we have executed quadripartite agreements with the regional organization of OMSZ having a professional background in healthcare and rescue, Paks NPP as the provider of financial means, Fire Service as the operator and Nukleo-Med in charge of providing professional assistance and coordinating the service hours of ambulance physicians and officers. Our cooperation has continued to work well since the establishment in 2005. Our Ambulance Service is well equipped with appropriate uniforms and our ambulance physicians and officers have all the special protection equipment they may have to wear. Also, they are given all the opportunities to acquire detailed local knowledge and take part in special training events. Indeed, I’m very glad to see them making use of such opportunities.”
- Congratulations for your Dress Helmet, and I wish you all the best for the future!

Katasztrófavédelem
by Anna Lovásziné
18. Márc 2010