Emergency medical services in Russia

Emergency medical services (Russian: Скорая Медицинская Помощь, romanized: Skoraya Meditsinskaya Pomoshch, lit.

[1][2] In the Russian Empire, emergency medical services first appeared in 1897 in Warsaw, Poland when an ambulance station was established.

after the Then stations were inaugurated in the cities of Lodz, Vilnius, Kyiv, Odessa, Riga, Kharkiv, Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Until that time, the victims, who were usually collected by policemen and firefighters, were transported to the emergency rooms under the auspices of the police stations.

The medical examination required in such cases was absent and often seriously injured people spent hours without adequate assistance.

The first carriage to transport women appeared in the maternity hospital of the Harushin brothers in 1903 and yet, the available forces were not enough to support the growing city.

In St. Petersburg, each of the five ambulance stations was equipped with two steam wagons, 4 pairs of hand stretchers and everything required for first aid.

With the outbreak of the First World War, the personnel of the ambulance services were transferred to the military department and operated as part of it.

Three rooms were allocated to the area of the new station in the left wing of the Sheremetyevo Hospital (now the Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine).

Since January 1, 2013, the financial support for emergency medical services is carried out at the expense of the Federal Mandatory Health Insurance Fund.