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Lviv region introduces paid ambulance calls – cost from a thousand hryvnias

On November 1, a new service was introduced for residents of Lviv and the region – paid medical transportation by an ambulance. “The ambulance will run within the city and region throughout the day, including weekends and holidays. This was reported by the hospital’s press service, Komersant ukrainskyi reports

“The emergency medical care department of the multidisciplinary hospital is launching an important initiative: due to the need to ensure medical transportation of patients, we are introducing a paid medical transportation service by the emergency medical team of the emergency medical care department,” the statement reads.

According to local media outlet lviv.media, such a service will cost UAH 1,000 within the city, UAH 2,005 within the region at a distance of 60 km from Lviv, and UAH 4,010 at a distance of 120 km from the city.

However, there are categories of patients who will receive such services free of charge. These are:

• people with disabilities of group I,
• participants of military operations,
• active military personnel,
• IDPS,
• people affected by Russia’s military aggression.

The hospital emphasized that since they do not have a children’s department, they will be able to respond to calls and hospitalize only adults over 18 years of age. Contacts for calling an ambulance are 096 011 21 03

It should be noted that an ambulance at 103 is called to patients in life-threatening conditions.

This includes only certain cases of dizziness and acute pain and does not include, for example, fever. The list of conditions that require a free ambulance is set out in the Ministry of Health Order No. 583.

The team is dispatched by the dispatcher in cases of the following patient complaints

• fainting or impaired consciousness
• seizures;
• sudden respiratory distress, lack of breathing, ineffective breathing;
• sudden chest pain;
• sudden headache accompanied by dizziness and/or nausea;
• sudden visual impairment;
• sudden speech impairment, weakness in the limbs that occurred suddenly;
• hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic coma;
• acute pain in the abdomen and/or lumbar region;
• significant external bleeding, vomiting of blood, hemoptysis;
• signs of internal bleeding (a sharp drop in blood pressure, increased pulse rate, severe generalized weakness and pallor of the skin, etc;)
• pregnancy disorders (preterm labor, bleeding, etc.);
• anaphylactic reaction caused by various factors;
• snake and spider bites;
• life-threatening injuries;
• accidents of any nature;
• heat stroke and hypothermia that threaten life;
• asphyxiation of all kinds (drowning, foreign bodies in the respiratory tract, suffocation);
• emergency situations of any nature;
• acute mental disorders (with behavior that is life-threatening to the patient and/or people around him/her);
• other conditions that threaten human life and health.