Balkans | Bulgaria will receive its first ambulance helicopter on December 15th

Minister of Health Dr. “We will have the first ambulance helicopter on December 15 of this year,” Asen Mesediev reported.

“The purchase contract has been signed with the Italian defense company Leonardo. We will gradually receive the remaining five helicopters in the coming years. This type of machine costs about 18 million euros.

This week, a tender is being launched for the purchase of two helicopters from Italy, with payment in instalments. From this summer, teams and technicians from Italy will come to our country with helicopter deliveries to start saving patients’ lives from the air.

doctor. “I hope we will have two ambulance helicopters that we will start using at the end of July,” Mesediev said. Thanks to our work with the 28th Military Air Detachment, we will use the Air Force runways, which is very important because the preparations for the construction of the hangar and runway require a longer process.

“The national coordinating center and bases of operations have been identified in Sofia. The first two ambulance helicopters will land at bases in Sofia and our metropolis in the summer, with work continuing to build at least three more bases in the country. Apart from the previously mentioned cities (Sofia, Varna, Pleven and Plovdiv ( Plovdiv) and Yampol (Yanbolu)), it is expected that helipads will be built in Burgas, Ruse (Rusk), Dobrich (Hacioglu Pazardzhik) and Balchik.

Quotas for doctors and teams to be trained were announced, and in parallel, training of helicopter pilots and technicians began.

The air ambulance service will be completely free of charge, and everything will be covered by the state and the Ministry of Finance.

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