Minister of Health Vladimír Lengvarsky and State Secretary MZ SR Lenka Dunajová Cooperative attended the Conference today Rescue workers of the Integrated Rescue System organized by the Slovak Chamber of Medical Paramedics.
I would like to thank the paramedics for their commitment and work, which they perform with extraordinary performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also outside. They are busy and often fight for people's lives in the field. Current in Slovakia an average of around 20,000 positive individuals tested for COVID-19 disease. Two percent of those tested positive a week ago also seek out hospital care. Medical Safety Operations Centre currently solves around 10,000 calls a day. Number of trips has risen EMTs, over 1,400 in the past week only to patients with suspected or confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. The increase was in all regions, but most were in Prešov and Košice region. The rescue job is With the mission and as the Minister of Health, I want to make sure that I'm doing everything I can, To work in dignified conditions, the Minister of Health said Vladimir Lengvarsky.
The statistics are clear. According to our current numbers Health Analysis Institute at the Ministry of Health is on average 200 EMTs daily only to patients with COVID-19 and number of trips during the current wave of micron will probably still grow a little bit. When we look back several weeks back, during the delta wave variant virus was on average 400 daily trips to coronavirus patients. We remember that even during the era There are also other diagnoses and patients need help rescuers other health problems, and all the more so people require their commitment. We see that paramedics often risk their own lives for the sake of others even when Interventions in mountain and inaccessible terrain,said State Secretary MZ SR Lenka Dunajová Družkovská.
At the event several rescuers were awarded for their exceptional work. The prize in memoriam was given to the rescue crew of the helicopter, which killed in the rescue of the patient on September 7, 2016 near the Shooters nearby Banská Bystrica. Honor their memory.