Two ambulance doctors beaten by individuals

Two Aviasan ambulance doctors were beaten by unidentified persons near Telenesti town. Both of them were taken to the Emergency Hospital with serious bodily injuries. Liviu Vovc, the head of the Chisinau Emergency Hospital, has told Info-Prim Neo that the incident happened last night. An ambulance was heading for Chisinau, transporting a woman with bilateral pneumonia and respiratory insufficiency, who was in a serious condition. The state of the woman became critical and the ambulance stopped for the doctors to provide the necessary assistance. At that time, another Aviasan ambulance conveying a pregnant woman with a risk of miscarriage was going to Telenesti. The driver stopped near the first ambulance and the doctor went to see if his colleagues needed help. Meanwhile, a jeep with three men stooped nearby. One of them hit the driver of the second car. The doctors came to help him and had been brutally beaten by the three men. When back to Chisinau, the two doctors were taken to the hospital. An investigation is underway. A 20-year-old woman was hospitalized with burns of the second and third degree on the face and hands that she received in a small explosion in the kitchen, cased by a gas leak. Two young men were rushed to the hospital with serious traumas after falling from the third floors of two apartment building. The first case happened on Studentilor Street in Chisinau. The 31-year-old man suffered associated traumas, concussion, fracture of the base of the cranium, fracture of the mandible, contusion of the internal bodies. The second man aged 24 fell from the third story of a building located on Florilor St. He sustained concussion, associated traumas, fracture of the forearm, multiple bruises. Three persons were struck by cars and received different bodily injuries. Yesterday and last night, the Chisinau ambulance doctors responded to 704 calls, dealing with 83 cases of acute viral infections, 67 cases of trauma and six strokes.