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Company Ambulance Service With Expanded Scope of Business

Jointly operated by NPP Fire Service and Nukleo-Med Kft., the Nuclear Power Plant-based Ambulance Service has further improved Plant employees’ accident-related and health care provision since this March. An extensive set of first aid instruments and materials was compiled to render help any time of the day since it is permanently available at our Fire Service. These first aid instruments and materials do not form part of the regular on-board outfit of the motor ambulance; they can be used independently, i.e. any time when the ambulance is not available for any reason, e.g. because it is called out to carry patients or to provide care for victims injured in a mass accident and it is off the site, or in cases where the ambulance is on the plant site though but it is engaged in any other health care job and, therefore, cannot take part in other tasks of health care provision.

As our Mercedes Sprinter emergency ambulance can provide high-level health care provision, and is equipped with up-to-date ambulance and rescue facilities on one part, the off-board first aid outfit has been compiled in strict accordance with the designed purpose of application and up to demanding expectations on the other.

The equipment includes a semi-automatic defibrillator, a set of limb immobilizer rails, an emergency neck immobilizer as well as a first aid box with bandages and other materials. The head of first aid on duty, a member of the fire fighting staff with health care qualifications, is responsible for keeping the first aid kit in a readily available condition. Each fireman who has regularly passed annual refreshing courses with the required exams, has ambulance nursing qualifications subject to passing an 80-hour course, attends a specialized school of ambulance nursing or is a certified ambulance nurse, is entitled to use the kit.

Last year, the plant-based Ambulance Service provided care for 111 patients; of them, 55 suffered accident-related injuries, 24 had diseases of internal organs and another 24 other problems (of the nervous system, ocular diseases, etc.). Reanimation was carried out successfully in two cases where the ambulance leaved the Plant on call. Thanks to the off-board first aid equipment, efficiency of the rescue system has generally been improved, providing an increased level of accident-related and health care provision for employees of the Nuclear Power Plant. Fire Service line no. 77-77 is available for receiving emergency calls. 

by Mrs. Anna Lovásziné
Nuclear Power Plant – May