Life in modern cities is filled with sounds, many of which have become so familiar that we practically do not pay attention to them. Encouraging cries of traders in the markets, the noise of construction, advertisements coming from the loudspeakers, the roar of the subway. And yet, when a siren's howl is heard on the dammed pavement, the heart involuntarily contracts and immediately the thought comes: "Someone's bad." And an ambulance rushes to help him.
Irreplaceable transport
Rarely does anyone think about where such a service originates from, such as the operative arrival of physicians to a sick person or to a person who is in danger for life or health. We used to think that it was always like this. But, of course, this is not true. Although almost all people are by nature inclined to help their neighbor, to systematize such assistance, turning it into an ambulance, they began to try only at the end of the 19th century. To seriously think about this problem began in Austria, after in 1881, a fire that happened in one of the theaters of Vienna killed 479 people. The most offensive was that there were many high-level hospitals in the city, but patients were not able to deliver and service quickly enough. But even then it was still far from such an idea as an ambulance. At first, ordinary carriages were used, which sometimes even today are traditionally mentioned instead of cars used by medical personnel.
Technical progress
As the automotive industry evolved, models designed to arrive at patients and provide them with as much as possible emergency aid were also improved. So, already in 1906 in New York there were 6 such machines, which, by the way, worked on electric traction. The car "OPEL DoktorWagen" - truly the most famous ambulance car of those times. Being simple and unpretentious, it helped doctors how to get to the patients living in hard-to-reach areas without any problems, and to transport them if necessary. In the USSR, ZIS and GAZ plants took over this work. In the thirties, the ambulance almost universally looked familiar in all ways. This was the GAZ-55 car, in which a maximum of 10 people were placed in various combinations of sedentary and recumbent patients.
Current state
Years passed, many other machines were manufactured and then removed from production, and finally, from the second half of the 1970s, the country became acquainted with a car that turned into a non-alternative means designed to serve people who need doctors. The famous "Rafik" - RAF 22031, the ambulance number one of those times. Drivers who ran it still love this famous car with its soft suspension and good maneuverability. Modern ambulances, including ambulances, are more like minicolines than cars. It does not matter what happened: any part of the body is injured, a heart attack has occurred or a person has been severely burned - already on the road, on the way to the clinic, thanks to modern equipment, doctors can provide the patient with services that were once unavailable in the hospitals themselves.