The satisfaction for the success of the delivery was evident on the faces of the doctor and the midwife who accompanied the mother, at the same time that 11 other newborns were also being transported by EKAV ambulances to Kavala and another to the Papageorgiou Hospital.
The pregnant woman who was the last person to be transported last night during the evacuation of the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis gave birth in an EKAV ambulance on the way to the Didymoteicho hospital.
The satisfaction for the success of the delivery was evident on the faces of the doctor and the midwife who accompanied the mother, at the same time that 11 other newborns were also being transported by EKAV ambulances to Kavala and another to the Papageorgiou Hospital.
The evacuation of the Alexandroupolis Hospital was one of the most difficult evacuation “exercises” that the staff of the Ministry of Civil Protection have been asked to manage, while for its on-site coordination the Deputy Minister of Health Marios Themistokleous and the President had flown from Athens by military helicopter of EKAV Nikos Papaefstathiou.
According to information, the planning of the operation had started the day before when the fire that had broken out in Alexandroupolis was taking on large proportions due to the strong winds that were blowing in the area with gusts that reached 9 Beaufort.
Yesterday at noon, the officers of the Unified Operations Coordination Center on Kifissias Avenue, based on the forecast they made for the progress of the fire and without the fire having yet approached the Hospital, decided on the preventive evacuation operation mainly due to the thick smoke that was directed towards the there at intervals the strong winds.
The operation began shortly after 9pm and was completed within a few hours. In total, based on the strict design, 159 patients were evacuated. In addition to the newborns, 42 patients were transported by buses to the hospitals of Kavala and Xanthi and 94 patients by EKAV ambulances – 25 to the Komotini Hospital and 69 to the ship that was converted into an Expeditionary Hospital.
10 patients were transferred from the ICU, with mobile units of the EKAB in Komotini and Kavala, a quite complex and difficult process as the specific patients were intubated. It should be noted that in each ambulance there was a doctor or a nurse who took care of the safe transport of the patients. In addition to the EKAV, forces from the Army’s health corps also participated in the entire operation.
At the same time, the fire brigade was fighting the flames which during the night reached 300 meters from the hospital without causing any damage but creating scattered fires and a lot of smoke.
All critical infrastructure was protected
The University Hospital of Alexandroupolis was not the only critical infrastructure in the area that the fire brigade protected.
With the help of the Armed Forces and under the coordination of the government echelon that has been in Evros since yesterday afternoon and is in line with the Civil Protection Operations Center in Athens, the military infrastructures of the area were protected, some of which also had ammunition depots, Alexandroupolis airport, a Nursing Home, while evacuation operations were carried out in two camps.
During the night the fire threatened the coastal zone to the west of Alexandroupoli and at 2 in the morning evacuation was given with 112 in all coastal settlements from Makri to Polis. Firefighters worked throughout the night on the fronts of the fire from the north, west and southwest, with an emphasis on Palaia and the coastal zone.
It is recalled that the Deputy Minister of the Interior, responsible for Macedonia-Thrace Affairs Stathis Konstantinidis, the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, responsible for Natural Disaster Recovery and State Aid Christos Triantopoulos, the General Secretary of Public Order Manos Logothetis, the General Director have gone to Evros of of Forests and Forest Environment of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, Vangelis Goudoufas, while together with the government echelon, the Chief of the General Directorate of Environment and Forestry, General Konstantinos Floros, went up to the area.
Source: Skai
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