Odesa doctors responded to calls almost 21 thousand times in 2024

Ambulances in Odesa. Photo: Odesa City Council

In 2024, the crews of the Odesa City Emergency Medical Care Centre visited patients almost 21,000 times following calls to the call centre.

According to the press service of the Odesa City Council, doctors also provided about 15,000 consultations, 301 of which concerned children's health.

To provide emergency care and medical support, the Centre's teams visited patients in serious condition and with disabilities, as well as those in need of haemodialysis, more than three thousand times.

In addition, the medics admitted more than 1,700 patients to hospitals and transferred more than a thousand between hospitals.

As a reminder, hospitals in Mykolaiv region are only 67% staffed with doctors, whose average age is 55-60 years.