In October, the ambulances handled 35,000 rescue tasks and nearly 10,000 emergency patients in and around Budapest. The number of cases in the capital increases every year, and in addition to the 112 emergency calls received every minute, the ambulance units also have to carry out a lot of secondary transport – transporting patients between hospitals – wrote the National Ambulance Service in his statement on Saturday.


It is a serious result that in the most urgent, “priority P1” cases – e.g. resuscitation – they were able to maintain the fast arrival time despite the increasing number of tasks,

which in the first ten months of the year was an average of 12 minutes from the time of the emergency call to the arrival of the patient.

In line with the increasing number of tasks and for the sake of even faster care, it is OMSZ puts five new rapid intervention units into service in Budapest. The work of the call takers is assisted with new professional support, a specialist consultation element, and the possibility of establishing a video connection, but the operational service management and administrative management system of the central Hungarian region is also being transformed.

They also mentioned that in order to reduce the number of unjustified emergency calls, the OMSZ, the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors and the Hungarian Chamber of Pharmacists recently launched a joint information campaign, in which they try to help patients know who to turn to in case of various complaints and which ones are serious , urgent cases where calling an ambulance is really the right solution.