The Ivanovo ambulance station celebrated 100 years since its foundation. A ceremonial event on this occasion was held at the Culture and Recreation Center of the city of Ivanovo on Thursday, April 25. The press service of the mayor’s office reported this on Friday, April 26.
The first city ambulance station was opened in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in 1924. At his disposal were only a horse-drawn cart and a sleigh. Two teams of doctors and paramedics were on duty.
Ambulance workers were on the front line during the Great Patriotic War, the Afghan War, the war in Chechnya, the Chernobyl disaster, the Spitak earthquake, and in the Special Military Operation.
In Ivanovo, 36 ambulance teams come on line every day. There are 677 employees on staff: 440 doctors and 160 drivers. They have saved thousands of lives.
The average age of ambulance workers today is 35 years.
Chairman of the Ivanovo City Duma Alexander Kuzmichev came to congratulate the staff and the chief physician of the Emergency Medical Station Olga Kachkina.
“For the successes achieved in the field of healthcare, for many years of conscientious work in the healthcare of the Ivanovo region and high professional skills, ambulance workers were awarded at the gala event,” the message says.
Izvestno.ru wrote that at the end of 2023, emergency doctors in Ivanovo began to respond to calls to patients faster: the average arrival time decreased from 41 minutes to 25 minutes.
