Two Romanians who sustained injuries in a multiple-car collision that occurred Friday morning in the area of Bulgaria's Veliko Tarnovo were to be airlifted to Romania by a Black Hawk helicopter of the Aviation Inspectorate General, for treatment at a Bucharest hospital, the Emergency Management Department (DSU) said.
The deployment of the helicopter equipped for medical evacuation missions comes in response to a request by the Romanian Embassy in the Republic of Bulgaria, the DSU said.
The victims are to be flown to Romania based on the framework emergency cross-border cooperation agreement between Romania and Bulgaria, so as to cut the time until the administration of specialized medical care, the cited source said.
According to the Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry in Veliko Tarnovo cited by news agency BTA, ten people were injured in a three-car collision at the Pass of the Republic near Mishemorkov Han on Friday morning. Five victims are Romanians, including a child. Two of them were to be airlifted to Romania from Gorna Oryahovitsa Airport for adequate treatment, another two were discharged for home recovery, while one remains hospitalized in Veliko Tarnovo, declared Dr. Sibila Marinova, head of the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Department of the Veliko Tarnovo Regional Hospital, BTA reports.
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