Emergency services received more than 10,000 calls this Christmas, the National Ambulance Service (OMSZ) told MTI on Wednesday.
They wrote that the ambulances were called to an unusually large number of places this Christmas, in addition to the great number of illnesses, they were also alerted to numerous carbon monoxide poisoning, fire and traffic accidents, and births and resuscitation were among their cases.
The 3,500 rescue tasks per day were about 15 percent more than usual on holidays, and meant continuous work for the approximately 1,300 rescuers on duty at the same time across the country. There was also a high number of calls in the unified primary care on-call system operated by the National Ambulance Service, where doctors and ambulance officers provided emergency care to 12,000 patients in the seventeen participating counties during the three days, the announcement says.
