Polish Medical Air Rescue | |
Native Name: | Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe |
Native Name Lang: | pl |
Logo Alt: | Logo of Polish Medical Air Rescue |
Abbreviation: | LPR |
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Type: | Air ambulance service |
Status: | Polish: Samodzielny publiczny zakład opieki zdrowotnej |
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Headquarters: | Warsaw, Poland |
Region Served: | Poland |
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Funding: | Government budget |
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The Polish Medical Air Rescue[1] (Polish: Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe|links=no|lit=Aerial Emergency Medical Service, Polish: LPR) is an air ambulance service providing Poland with helicopter emergency medical services within the State Medical Rescue, publicly funded system of urgent medical care and aerial patient transfer services that can be requested by any health care provider.
Other Polish institutions providing air ambulance services include Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue with its PZL W-3 Sokół helicopter and SAR units of Polish Navy.
Image | Aircraft | Variant | Number | |
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Helicopters | ||||
EC135 | P2+ | 17 | ||
P3 | 9 | |||
Airplanes | ||||
Piaggio P.180 Avanti | Avanti | 1 | ||
Avanti II | 1 | |||
Learjet 75 | Learjet 75 Liberty | 2 | ||
Training aircraft | ||||
Robinson R44 | Raven II | 2 | ||
Tecnam P2008 | Tecnam P2008JC MkII | 3 |
LPR operates 21 permanent and one seasonal HEMS bases throughout Poland. There's at least one permanent base in each of the voivodeships.
[3]Patient transfer team and its 4 airplanes are stationed at the Warsaw Chopin Airport and are on duty 24 hour a day seven days a week.[4]