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Saving Lives - As a Full-Time Job

Author(s): Raed Arafat
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: Romania; SMURD; emergency service; healthcare

Summary/Abstract: Raed Arafat wanted to be an emergency doctor since his childhood. He studied in Romania, and became intensive care doctor. In 1990 he created the first SMURD ("Serviciul Mobil de Urgenţǎ, Reanimare şi Descarcerare", that means Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication) in Târgu Mureş/Marosvásárhely. SMURD is a mobile emergency service which collaborates with the firefighter service, and now it is represented in the whole country. In this interview he speaks about the relationship between politics and healthcare, and about the difficulties of the SMURD’s beginnings.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 36-40
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Hungarian