Medical rescue service of South Bohemia Region is established by the South Bohemian Region as a separate allowance organization forming a single functional, organizational and economic entity with legal personality. This organization provides 24-hour emergency pre-hospital care in an area of 10 056 km2 with 640 196 inhabitants.
The main activity is based on and arrangement of emergency calls to provide pre-hospital emergency care to people with serious health disabilities or life threats and tasks to ensure the preparedness activities on emergency management and crisis situations.
Medical rescue service of South Bohemia Region as an organization consists of:
• Head office
• Medical Operating Centre,
• The departure of the bases and the groups
• Departure of crisis management,
• Educational and training centre
Medical rescue service of South Bohemia Region is divided into seven regional centres, which operate the 32 bases. There are 54 groups working nonstop in these bases:
• 38 emergency medical assistance groups - RZP (large ambulance vehicles comprising a paramedic and a driver/rescue person)
• 6 fast medical aid groups - RLP (large ambulance vehicles comprising a physician, a paramedic and a driver/rescue person)
• 10 groups of rendez-vous system - RV (small emergency vehicles carrying a physician and a paramedic)
• 1 crew of air rescue services
Bases network is arranged on plan of covering the territory of the region so that the place of event is reachable from the nearest departure base within driving time within 20 minutes of receiving the emergency call. For the year, rescuers go to more than 81,700 interventions.
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