Air ambulances flew 11 medical missions between 2 and 9 October, giving seriously ill patients specialist care in good time, the National 112 System directorate at the Interior Ministry said.

The European emergency number 112 received 35,534 calls this week. Of these, 13,558 were passed to emergency medical centres.

There were 2,270 calls about road crashes, 3,647 about fires, 244 about accidents and 10 about disasters. Home and industrial incidents prompted 10 calls, and hazardous substances 3. Crimes against people made up 7,848 calls, and crimes against property 1,031.

Callers reported risky driving and street races 25 times, missing or stranded people 276 times, and illegal migrants and refugees 9 times. In all, 5,980 calls were passed to local councils to deal with.

Operators also handled 11 cross-border calls that needed police, firefighters and emergency medical help. They came from Croatia, the Netherlands and Germany. One was a case of domestic violence against a Bulgarian woman in Ghent, Belgium.

At the end of September, the HEMS air emergency medical service said it had flown 370 missions since it was set up in 2024. Of these, 285 were secondary transfers from one hospital to another, and 85 were primary missions, taking patients from the scene of an incident to a hospital with the right level of expertise.

HEMS says the patients it flies most often have severe injuries or heart and blood vessel emergencies, including multiple trauma and multiple organ failure. These arise from road crashes, falls from a height, workplace accidents and other incidents.