“Revenue has gone up 4% top 6% so far and we hope to end the year with RON40 million. We are ambulance service providers for Regina Maria, Medicover, we have contracts with all dialysis operators and several multinational companies. This year we’ve answered 30,000 requests for service from patients,” Eduard Sersea, manager of Ambulanta BGS Medical Unit, told ZF.
The clients of the Romanian-held company also include Centrul Medical Panduri, Gral Medical, Synevo, Medsana and Academica, according to the corporate website.
“We have a fleet of 300 small ambulances we use to transport dialysis patients and 30 big ambulances. We got 40 small and four big ambulances in leasing from Citroen this year alone. The price of a big equipped ambulance ranges from EUR50,000 to EUR120,000.”
Bucharest has 17 licensed providers of ambulance services, according to the Public Health Department’s website. (EUR1=RON4.6306)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)