Shared taxi for injured people in Oberpinzgau
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Since Christmas, a collective taxi for injured people is intended to shorten waiting times for rescue in Oberpinzgau. So far, the Red Cross teams have often been busy bringing the injured individually to the Tauern Clinic and Zell am See.
The long travel times of the Red Cross from Oberpinzgau to the Tauernklinikum Zell am See and back are to be shortened by the new regulation. So far, seriously injured people have been driven from the scene of the accident to the hospital in Zell am See.
Especially in the ski season, however, this meant that the population in Oberpinzgau sometimes had to wait a very long time for rescue in an emergency, because all the rescue vehicles were on their way to or from Zell am See.
50 injured per day by shared taxi to the hospital
On December 24th, the procedure for emergencies in Oberpinzgau was changed – since then, a shared taxi has been picking up the injured, says the medical director of the Tauernklinikum Zell am See-Mittersill Rudolph Pointner: “We have made an agreement with the Red Cross that the patients all brought to Mittersill by ambulance and they all receive first aid there. They will then be transferred to Zell am See in a collective rescue transport.”
The Oberpinzgau Red Cross cars are to remain in the region and, according to Pointner, are therefore available more quickly. During the Christmas holidays, up to 50 freshly injured people were taken to the Mittersill hospital every day for first aid – the majority of them after skiing accidents. The paramedics are paid for the injured transports by the Tauernklinikum. The new regulation is initially valid until the end of the winter season.