Organization of the Leipzig emergency services is adjusted

According to the new area plan, the number of ambulances is increased from 35 to 40. Of the existing seven emergency medical vehicles, five are currently occupied 24 hours on seven days, two are filled twelve hours a day. The provision of one of these two is increased by twelve hours. In the area of non-penal patient transport, it remains with 35 vehicles, but the consultation hours are reduced.

"The emergency services are faced with a fundamental reorganization," explains Heiko Rosenthal. “The expert opinion commissioned by the city council in 2019 to perform the Leipzig rescue service attested to us in the existing infrastructure and a necessary adaptation of the provision of rescue funds. With the new area plan, the expert recommendations will continue to be implemented in the future with the safe care of our citizens with services of medical emergency rescue and the qualified ambulance to ensure. "

axel Schuh, head of the fire directorate: "There is a consolidation of the existing six rescue guards to four new areas of application (north, south, east, east, west) of the scope and vehicle distribution. In each of these areas of application, a new rescue center with associated rescue guards will arise. Rescue.

With the restructuring, the demand for the inventory performance provider is also taken into account. DRK Rettungsdienst Leipzig gGmbH, Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Regionalverband Leipzig e.V., ambulance transport East/West GmbH as well as Falck Emergency Rescue and Anfatil Transport GmbH had already stimulated a more uniform distribution of the operating load in future area planning in 2017.