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New delay expected for air ambulances for emergency medical services

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Air ambulance services with helicopters are about to be delayed again. Caretaker Minister of Transport Hristo Alexiev on June 1 approved the Italian company ALIDAUNIA S.R.L as the contractor and the hired helicopters were expected to arrive by mid-July. 

The new minister of transport Georgi Gvozdeykov announced in a post that he considers "the signing of a contract for the outsourcing of the service to be madness, which will damage the state budget".

Gvozdeykov assumed the ministerial post after a sharp confrontation with the caretaker cabinet, which closed the state company "Bulgaria Heli Med Service" headed by him. It was created by the previous regular cabinet and proposed that the prices for air support would be 25 percent lower than those agreed under the caretaker government.



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