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Depending on the patient’s condition, ambulance calls will be divided into critical, emergency, non-urgent, and non-essential.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine supported the decision to introduce additional criteria for calling an ambulance according to the priority of medical care. On December 16, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal announced this on Telegram.
Depending on the patient’s condition, going to an ambulance will be defined as critical, emergency, non-emergency, and non-basic.
“This will reduce the mortality rate, since a priority is established for patients with critical conditions. The standard for the arrival of medical equipment in this case should be 10 minutes from the moment the dispatcher receives a request,” he said the first Minister.
In May 2019, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine initiated the first stage of the transformation of the emergency medical care system. For the implementation of a pilot reform project in Vinnytsia, Donetsk, Odessa, Poltava, Ternopil and Kiev regions, 922.5 million UAH was allocated in the state budget.
One of the reform tasks was called updating the scheduling algorithms and creating a new IT infrastructure, which will allow receiving information on the status of each call at a given time.
In Ukraine, they plan to introduce the principle of extraterritoriality in emergency medical care work, the ambulance will go to calls without being tied to the region. This was announced on July 31 by the Minister of Health of Ukraine Stepanov.
Stepanov on August 1 during a business trip to the Rivne region he said that in Ukraine, 31% of ambulance calls meet the standards.
“We want this figure to be at least 60% next year and to increase it further to 75-80% in two more years,” said the head of the Ministry of Health.
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