Two years after the state announced an end to ambulances with patients from hospital in hospital, emergency physicians still do not have real-time access to information about available beds in medical facilities. So the teams go around again until they find a hospital where they will certainly admit a person according to the diagnosis and his condition. The problem was posed by Dr. Desislava Katelieva from the Association of Emergency Workers, quoted by BNR.
In October 2022, the then Acting Ministers of Health and Transport announced the official start of a new system in which, when a patient is picked up by an emergency team and given information about his condition, the closest hospitals will be written on the tablet in the ambulance , in which it can be transported. The reality today – on the tablet, the emergency doctors only see the address of the patient, pointed out Dr. Katelieva and gave the example of Japan.
"The colleague in Osaka told me this - there are 80 teams, I have a tablet and it says in real time which nearest hospital can accept the patient. While the Bulgarian doctor calls the "Ambulance", which has information from 8 o'clock in the morning and according to this information goes around".
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the information is again updated for all hospitals and becomes the starting point for the next 12 hours. According to Dr. Katelieva, if it is available in real time, it will ease the work of emergency physicians both for stroke patients and for other diseases requiring immediate hospital treatment.