Senior paramedic Alina Nikolaeva from the Novgorod ambulance substation told which calls the ambulance responds to first. First, they take emergency cases when there is a threat to life. These include loss of consciousness and breathing problems, severe chest pain and circulatory disorders, childbirth and threat of miscarriage, mental disorders when a person is dangerous to themselves or others, sudden severe pain and bleeding, thermal and chemical burns, as well as injuries, poisoning and wounds with bleeding or damage to internal organs.

Urgent care is provided for acute conditions without a threat to life, but with severe discomfort. This includes acute illnesses without signs of a threat to life and exacerbations of chronic diseases.

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