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14.05.2009 von admin

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Mercedes-Benz Citaro – the mobile clinic
  • The world’s largest ambulance
  • The latest medical equipment with the world’s smallest X-ray unit
  • Mercedes-Benz Citaro as the perfect platform


Mercedes-Benz Citaro large-capacity ambulance

"Scalpel please, sister!" is a sentence that might in future not only be heard in a hospital operating theatre, but also in one of the three new, large-capacity ambulances handed over to the Centre of Ambulance Services of the Government of Dubai. From now on, it is the hospital that comes to the patient in Dubai. The three Mercedes-Benz clinic buses were ordered so that rapid medical assistance can be rendered in the event of major emergencies, i.e. accidents or disasters with large numbers of injury victims. As is well-known, the survival chances of very seriously injured persons in large measure depend on rapid first treatment, and this is the purpose of the large-capacity ambulances. Particularly owing to the chaotic traffic conditions in and around disaster areas, there are often delays in getting patients to a hospital. Equally often, there are an insufficient number of ambulances available. While a two-man crew is normally only able to care for one patient in an emergency ambulance, up to 20 persons can receive care from four specialist personnel in the Mercedes-Benz large-capacity ambulance. These new emergency vehicles now offer the unique possibilities of a fully equipped, mobile clinic with an intensive-care unit and an operating theatre.

The world’s largest ambulance

These vehicles now entering service on the roads of Dubai are nothing short of mobile superlatives. On the basis of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro regular service bus and the Citaro G, the vehicle conversion specialists Gebr. Heymann GmbH working with the international research and consultancy company "Von Bergh Global Medical Consulting" have developed vehicles that meet the very highest medical requirements. It is not without a measure of pride that the companies concerned describe them as the world’s largest ambulances. A tour of these buses quickly shows that this is no exaggeration. Three variants have been produced:

Bus variant A is designed as a mobile intensive care unit, variant B for the large-scale treatment and transport of medium to slightly injured patients, and variant C as a combination of the two. This variant alone has enough treatment and transport capacity for more than 80 patients.


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