Alexey Tsoy visited ambulance facilities in Almaty
The Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan Alexey Tsoy, as part of a two-day working trip to Almaty, met with the staff of the Ambulance Service station and examined the fleet of new vehicles.
In Almaty, for the first time, the algorithm for providing emergency medical care to patients with COVID-19, ARVI, community-acquired pneumonia was improved. Here, an ambulance is the only hospitalization mechanism; digital mechanisms for routing patients to infectious hospitals in the city have been introduced.
Today, the head of the Almaty city public health department Kamalzhan Nadyrov told the head of the Ministry of Health about what systemic measures taken to improve the work of the emergency room and the readiness of the health system for a possible new wave of COVID-19.
“The city ambulance service is ready for the autumn-winter period. We predict that at the current peak capacity the service will be able to process more than 9,000 calls per day and hospitalize up to 500 patients per day, ”said K. Nadyrov.
During the meeting, the minister was presented with 35 new, fully equipped ambulances that meet all international standards. For the purchase of an ambulance, 1.4 billion tenge was allocated from the local budget. These are Hyundai H350 ambulances of class B and C. All ambulances are equipped with portable electric aspirators (Accuvac pro), artificial lung ventilation devices (Medumat), Corpuls1 defibrillators, a complex for automated integrated assessment of the functional state of the cardiovascular system ” Cardiometer-MT “, oxygen inhalers KI-5 with an oxygen cylinder 2L, with a set of masks and a ” Nebulizer “device German pulse oximeters.
Today, there is a decrease in the workload of ambulances. At the peak of the incidence of COVID-19, very different indicators were observed. The ambulance received up to 8,000 calls per day, and for every second team went to the patient’s home.
At the beginning of July, 50% of all calls to the ambulance service were patients with suspected coronavirus. Today, in the structure of calls, we note a decrease in the number of calls due to ARVI, pneumonia, and coronavirus. This is no more than 9% of all calls.
On the front line in the Ambulance Service, more than 3,000 people are involved, this is 180 brigades. Including 365 doctors, 1,388 paramedics.
Ministry of health care of the RK press Service