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Polish Medical Air Rescue

Polish Medical Air Rescue

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The Polish Medical Air Rescue[1] (Polish: Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe, lit. 'Aerial Emergency Medical Service', LPR) is an air ambulance service providing Poland with helicopter emergency medical services within the State Medical Rescue, publicly funded system of urgent medical care and aerial patient transfer services that can be requested by any health care provider.

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Helicopter Polish Medical Air Rescue (LPR), transporting a patient from Gorlice to another hospital
Eurocopter EC135 in Sanok
Helicopter field in Gorzów Wielkopolski

Other Polish institutions providing air ambulance services include Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue with its PZL W-3 Sokół helicopter and SAR units of Polish Navy.

Fleet

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Operations

LPR operates 21 permanent and one seasonal HEMS bases throughout Poland. There's at least one permanent base in each of the voivodeships.

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Patient transfer team and its 4 airplanes are stationed at the Warsaw Chopin Airport and are on duty 24 hour a day seven days a week.[4]

Notes

  1. Major city the base is located near by and assigned to.
  2. The base is not part of other pre-existing aerodrome.
  3. Operational from 1 June to 5 September

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe". lpr.com.pl. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe » Flota" (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  3. [3]
    "Lotnicze zespoły ratownictwa medycznego - Ministerstwo Zdrowia - Portal Gov.pl". gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  4. [4]
    "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe » Baza EMS Warszawa". lpr.com.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
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