Life in modern cities is filled with sounds, many of which have become so familiar that we practically do not pay attention to them. The calls of traders in the markets, the noise of the construction site, advertisements coming from the speakers, the rumble of the subway. And yet, when a siren howls on the dammed bridge, the heart involuntarily contracts and the thought immediately comes: "Someone is feeling bad." And an ambulance hurries to help him.
Irreplaceable transport
Few people think about where the service comes from, such as the prompt arrival of physicians to a sick person or a person who is in a life-threatening or life-threatening situation. We used to think that it always has been. But, of course, this is not true. Although almost all people by nature are inclined to help their neighbor in trouble, systematizing such assistance, turning it into an ambulance, began to be tried only at the end of the 19th century. They began to think seriously about this problem in Austria, after 479 people died in 1881 in a fire in one of Vienna's theaters. The most annoying was the fact that there were many high-level hospitals in the city, but patients could not be delivered and served quickly enough. But even then it was still far from such a concept as an ambulance. At first, ordinary carriages were used, which are sometimes still traditionally mentioned today instead of the machines used by doctors.
Technical progress
As the automotive industry developed, models designed to arrive at patients and provide them with ambulance as much as possible improved. So, already in 1906 in New York, there were 6 such machines that, by the way, worked on electric traction. The car "OPEL DoktorWagen" is truly the most famous ambulance of those times. Being simple and unpretentious, she helped doctors how to get to patients living in hard-to-reach areas without special problems and to transport them if necessary. In the USSR, ZIS and GAZ plants took over this work. In the thirties, an ambulance almost universally looked familiar to everyone. It was a GAZ-55 car in which a maximum of 10 people were placed in various combinations of sedentary and bedridden patients.
Current stateYears passed, many other machines were manufactured and then discontinued, and finally, from the second half of the 1970s, the country got acquainted with a car that has turned into an uncontested tool designed to serve people in need of a doctor. The famous "Rafik" - RAF 22031, the ambulance number one of those times. The drivers who drove it still speak lovingly about this famous car for its soft suspension and good maneuverability. Modern ambulances, including reanimobiles, look more like miniclinics than just cars. No matter what exactly happened: any part of the body was injured, a heart attack occurred or a person received severe burns - on the way, on the way to the clinic, thanks to modern equipment, doctors can provide the patient with services that were once inaccessible in the hospitals themselves.