Polish Medical Air Rescue

Polish Medical Air Rescue
Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe
Abbreviation	LPR
Type	Air ambulance service
Legal status	Samodzielny publiczny zakład opieki zdrowotnej
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Region served	Poland
Funding	Government budget
Website	www.lpr.com.pl

The Polish Medical Air Rescue^[1] (Polish: Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe, lit. 'Aerial Emergency Medical Service', 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.

Fleet

Image	Aircraft	Variant	Number
Helicopters
	EC135	P2+	17
	EC135	P3	9
Airplanes
	Piaggio P.180 Avanti	Avanti	1
	Piaggio P.180 Avanti	Avanti II	1
	Learjet 75	Learjet 75 Liberty	2
Training aircraft
	Robinson R44	Raven II	2
	Tecnam P2008	Tecnam P2008JC MkII	3

Source:^[2]

Operations

LPR operates 21 permanent and one seasonal HEMS bases throughout Poland. There's at least one permanent base in each of the voivodeships.

Code name Ratownik	Location		Aerodrome	On duty 7 days a week	Aircraft	Link
Code name Ratownik	City^[a]	Voivodeship	Aerodrome	On duty 7 days a week	Aircraft	Link
1	Białystok	Podlaskie	Białystok-Krywlany Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm	EC 135	[1]
2	Bydgoszcz	Kuyavian-Pomeranian	—^[b]	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[2]
3	Gdańsk	Pomeranian	Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport	24 h/day		[3]
4	Katowice	Silesian	Katowice-Muchowiec Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[4]
5	Kielce	Świętokrzyskie	Kielce-Masłów Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[5]
6	Kraków	Lesser Poland	—^[b]	24 h/day		[6]
7	Lublin	Lublin	Lublin Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[7]
8	Olsztyn	Warmian–Masurian	Gryźliny Airstrip	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[8]
9	Poznań	Greater Poland	Poznań–Ławica Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[9]
10	Sanok	Subcarpathian	Sanok-Baza Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[10]
11	Szczecin	West Pomeranian	Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[11]
12	Warsaw	Masovian	Warsaw Babice Airport	24 h/day		[12]
13	Wrocław	Lower Silesian	Wrocław Airport	24 h/day		[13]
15	Zielona Góra	Lubuskie	Zielona Góra-Przylep Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[14]
16	Łódź	Łódź	Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[15]
17	Suwałki	Podlaskie	Suwałki Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[16]
18	Płock	Masovian	Płock Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[17]
19	Sokołów Podlaski	Masovian	—^[b]	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[18]
21	Ostrów Wielkopolski	Greater Poland	Ostrów Wielkopolski-Michałków Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[19]
22	Koszalin	West Pomeranian	Zegrze Pomorskie Airport	seasonal base^[c] 7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[20]
23	Opole	Opole	Opole-Polska Nowa Wieś Airport	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[21]
24	Gorzów Wielkopolski	Lubuskie	—^[b]	7:00 am – 8:00 pm		[22]

Source:^[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]

Notes

^ Major city the base is located near by and assigned to.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d The base is not part of other pre-existing aerodrome.
^ Operational from 1 June to 5 September

References

^ "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe". lpr.com.pl. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
^ "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe » Flota" (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-24.
^ "Lotnicze zespoły ratownictwa medycznego - Ministerstwo Zdrowia - Portal Gov.pl". gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
^ "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe » Baza EMS Warszawa". lpr.com.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-29.

External links

Polish Medical Air Rescue (official website)

[city-3] Major city the base is located near by and assigned to.

[base-4] The base is not part of other pre-existing aerodrome.

[seasonal-5] Operational from 1 June to 5 September

[1] "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe". lpr.com.pl. Retrieved 29 April 2023.

[2] "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe » Flota" (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-24.

[6] "Lotnicze zespoły ratownictwa medycznego - Ministerstwo Zdrowia - Portal Gov.pl". gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-29.

[7] "Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe » Baza EMS Warszawa". lpr.com.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-04-29.

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