“A thousand thumbs up to all the “Helenes” and to all the “Fotis” of EKAV (there are certainly many and many such in your workforce) who, for me, simply save our lives, under all circumstances!”
“Helen and Fotis, thank you…” Giorgos Deligiannis gives his moving testimony about the timely intervention of two young people, crew in an EKAB ambulance, after a traffic accident at OAKA in his letter of thanks to the National Center for Immediate Assistance.
“The time was 11 instead of 20… these 2 young guys, EKAB rescuers, question if they were 30-35 years old, while they were studying… they didn’t care about the time. They heard the traffic signal and turned from Kifisias to come and help. Give first aid. To save. They didn’t think about the time or their homes,” emphasizes Mr. Deligiannis.
“These lifesavers for me, they are really professional. These women and men of EKAV who are out on the street have honor and morals! (…) Eleni and Fotis, I thank you personally even on behalf of the injured, who I hope their recovery will have a good outcome” he notes.
The thank you letter to EKAV in detail
“I am sending this letter regarding an incident that, as an eyewitness, I was very impressed by the professionalism and also the ethics shown by the rescuers of EKAB.
On June 28, 2023, shortly after 10 pm, while I was on Spyrou Loui Street at the Olympic Stadium, an incredible car accident of 4-5 cars happened in front of me. Me and bystanders helped people out of their cars and eventually there were 3 injured women. Without having any medical knowledge, the 2 of them seemed serious to me, with unbearable chest and leg pains and a problem with their breathing. We called 166 where they answered that they would immediately send an ambulance. To be honest, with what I’ve been reading lately about EMS and the long delays with your ambulances, I didn’t think anyone would be coming anytime soon. Time seemed endless to me. One of the 3 injured fainted, we tried to revive her… she was in unbearable pain, she couldn’t breathe. I was starting to despair..
I try to call 166 again… and I hear sirens. Finally 10 minutes had passed and from the depth of Spirou Loui I could see an ambulance zigzagging between the cars to get to us. I went out into the middle of the street and spontaneously started waving my arms! I was shouting “here”… “here”…
2 young children, a girl and a man, get out of the ambulance. They calm me down… they ask who has hit… they all shout… everyone wants to go to their own person.
These two, cool calm the world. They quickly go to the 3 women they had hit. They ask them questions, put collars on their necks. They reassure them. While all this is happening, after 5-6 minutes, another ambulance appears upside down in Spyrou Loui. I talk to the girl who was in the first ambulance, I asked her her name. Her name was Eleni. I asked her where they were going to take the injured. The Red Cross answers me, but a third ambulance will also come because my colleague and I heard the signal for a serious traffic accident while we were coming down from Kifissias and were going to deliver the ambulance after our shift had ended. At that moment, the third ambulance also appears… and her colleague, Fotis, approaches and tells her to go help their colleagues to extricate the last injured woman from the back seat of a car. She greets me politely, I manage to ask her as she leaves, what time she had been studying. He answers me since what 10:00…
The time was 11 instead of 20… these 2 young children, EKAV rescuers, question whether they were 30-35 years old, while they had gone to school… they didn’t care about the time. They heard the traffic signal and turned from Kifisias to come and help. Give first aid. To save. They didn’t think about the time or their homes…
These lifeguards for me are really professionals. These women and men of EKAV who are out on the street have honor and morals! They have in their blood the love for their work and all they care about is the life of their fellow man. This applies to all the EKAV people who got there last night quickly, but I especially exclude Eleni and Fotis who, while they could have simply continued their route, they preferred to lose 1-2 hours of their rest time and be the first nearby, to their fellow human beings… who were hurting on the asphalt.
A thousand thumbs up to all the “Helenes” and to all the “Fotis” of EKAV (there are certainly many and many such in your workforce) who, for me, simply save our lives, under all circumstances! These children are always by our side when we feel weak… afraid to face any health problem that comes our way.
These 2 children, Eleni and Fotis, for me deserve the credit of ALL OF US. These 2 children express for me the quality and the work performed by all the rescuers of EKAV!
Eleni and Fotis, I thank you personally even on behalf of the injured, who I hope their recovery will have a good outcome.
The reason I am sharing (and want these facts to be known) is because I was in awe of the work of these People (with a capital ‘A’) of EKAB… I never understood what exactly they do, out on the street all this the yellow cars… Last night I understood it… I saw it… and from now on I will respect it….
For the record, I never asked their last names but at some point when they were talking on the radio I heard that their ambulance had the code A25…
George Deligiannis”.
Source: Skai
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