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Upgrading of domestic ambulance car fleet

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Upgrading of domestic ambulance car fleet 

In 2016 it is allocated 3 billion rubles for the purchase of ambulances. Delivery the trucks at subjects of the Federation is planned in the amount of 1 317 units, and at institutions of FMBA of Russia - in the amount of 40 units. The same amount has been allocated in 2015, was purchased 1357 units.

"For medical care it is necessary to create conditions for it to be done easier and more comfortable anywhere in the country, - said Dmitry Medvedev at the forum Sochi-2016. - There are places where access to the patient without special transport is impossible, therefore one of the tasks – to make healthcare more mobile."

The whole day there are operate 15 thousand cars, 10 thousand of them has the timing worked out, that is, they more than five years old. This is the 70 % of existing medical cars. Each year cars must be updated at least at 20 per cent. Most regions simply repairing old cars.

Requirements for ambulances establishes in the decree "On approval of the Technical Regulations on the Safety of Wheeled Vehicles" № 720 from September 10, 2009. The sole supplier of ambulances in 2016, to satisfy the statutes and judgments of import substitution, are defined the Russian manufacturers: Car factory "GAS", Llc. "UAZ", Llc. "Ford Sollers Holding". Car brand "Gazelle" took a leading position among the purchased by the Ministry of transport and health at the national project "Health".

Production and delivery of new ambulances being on several fronts on the basis of technical and functional features:

Class A - transportation of staff and non-severe patients;
Class B - the machine to provide pre-hospital care;
Class C - resuscitative transportation.

Among the most popular models of cars there is worth remembering the GAZ Valdai, aka GAS-3310, modification - GAZ-33104. GAZ Valdai - domestic medium-low truck class N2, that was produced from 1999 to 2015 at the Gorky Automobile Plant.

Conveyor production modification GAZ-33104 started in 2003 with the production of headlight units, applied on later models - "Gazel" and "Sobol". For the "Valdai" has been completely redesigned front suspension, introduced new front and rear axles and the low-profile wheels. The brake system has been made only to air, ABS added. Thus was created the wagon with low loading height (1000 mm), the suspension comfortable, safe and cost effective braking system diesel.

Cars create comfortable conditions for the provision of emergency medical care: compatible equipment for ventilators, defibrillation, intensive care units for transportation and monitoring of vital functions. Designers of cars equipped them with three-point seat belts, heater and power supply 220V/12V, noise insulation, as well as upholstery, resistant to disinfectants, so modern domestic auto industry is not inferior to the foreign level of comfort.