District Hospitals of Rivne Region Received 18 Road Ambulances
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District hospitals of Rivne region received 16 brand new Citroën-based road ambulances. Two more ambulances will be assigned to the Regional Clinical Hospital and Rivne City Hospital.
The keys to the ambulances were solemnly handed over to chief physicians of the district healthcare facilities by Oleksii Muliarenko, Head of the Rivne Region State Administration, Oleksandr Korniichuk, First Deputy Chairman of Rivne Region Council, and Serhii Rybachok, Management Consultant of the World Bank Sub-project Implementation Unit.
“It is particularly pleasant to see health care reform being implemented in Rivne region together with the implementation of the World Bank Project Serving People, Improving Health. I am certain that joint hard work of the region’s healthcare professionals and World Bank consultants will bring good results, and this will actually improve the quality of medical care in the region. Procurement of these road ambulances is one of the first real achievements within the Project”, said Oleksii Muliarenko.
Each vehicle is supplied with modern equipment: defibrillators, ECG machines, infusion pumps, suction devices, pulse oximeters, blood glucose meters and oxygen inhalation stations. In addition, the ambulances are equipped with pick up stretchers with pneumatic suspension, vacuum splints and fluid warming systems.
Oleh Hykavchuk, Deputy Chief Physician of the Regional Center of Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine, told that the vehicles are classified as class B road ambulances. This means that they will provide medical care to all kinds of patients. If you install a medical ventilator (for artificial lung ventilation) in the ambulance, it turns into a mobile intensive care unit.
It is to be recalled that the ambulances each worth $64,500 were procured as part of the World Bank Project Serving People, Improving Health to be completed in 2020.
Additionally, Serhii Rybachok, Management Consultant of the World Bank Sub-project Implementation Unit, noted that the procurement of the ambulances is one of the whole number of activities planned under the Project. It is also planned to reconstruct 105 PHC ambulatories and rural health posts into modern healthcare facilities. Moreover, a cardiovascular center is to emerge on the basis of the regional hospital, and more than a thousand doctors in the region will undergo advanced level trainings.
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