Shortages of ambulance crews will be managed both by reducing teams to two per vehicle, from three, while Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) medics may also be drafted in to plug gaps, ETV news show Aktuaalne kaamera (AK) reported Tuesday night.
The issue is particularly pressing in Tallinn, which has been virtually at breaking point since before last weekend and has seen both lines of ambulances waiting at hospitals to drop off patients, and patients being taken to hospitals as far afield as Pärnu, about 100 km from Tallinn.
The new measure came into effect Tuesday, AK reported; less experienced staff at earlier stages in their training, and also medical students, will also be permitted to work
The slippery conditions seen across the country today, which have caused hundreds of accidents, are expected to last until 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Due to melting ice and freezing rain, glazed ice formed on roads across the country on Tuesday. The state weather service is forecasting that similar contitions will continue until 9 a.m. on Wednesday.
Earlier today the Transport Board said the conditions on roads across the country are extremely difficult. The police said between 11 .am. and 4 p.m. more than 200 traffic accidents had been reported by telephone, the majority in Tallinn and Harju County.
The police have asked cyclists and pedestrians to be careful and told drivers to avoid driving. Tallinn City Government has requested drivers be careful.
A recent attack on a senior doctor in Tallinn which saw him showered with a a liquid thought to be urine was with certainty unrelated to his position on the government s coronavirus advisory council, the prosecutor s office says.
An investigation into the assault, which took place last Wednesday evening as the doctor, Peep Talving, sat in his vehicle outside his workplace at the North Estonian Medical Center (PERH), has led to the principals suspect s detention by the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA).
North District Prosecutor Diana Helila told ETV news show Aktuaalne kaamera (AK) that the suspect, named in the media as Toomas Erm Wilson, has admitted to carrying out the attack and is cooperating with the PPA and prosecutor s office with a view to obtaining a sentence via plea deal.
0 >The 54-year-old man, known as Toomas, who the PPA has appealed to the public for help in finding, in relation to last week s attack on a doctor. Source: PPA
The Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) have released an image of a man who allegedly attacked a senior doctor in Tallinn last week, declaring him a wanted person. The individual, who under Estonian law cannot be fully named, is reportedly a prominent figure in the criminal underworld.
A PPA press spokesperson said the man they are seeking is a 54-year-old with the first name Toomas, pictured above, with a fuller image below. The PPA has already detained an as yet unnamed 61-year-old man in connection with last Wednesday evening s attack, which saw liquid reported to be urine thrown at Peep Talving, head doctor at the North Estonian Medical Center (PERH), as he waited in his car outside the hospital at around 7 p.m.
Forty-two residents of the remote Estonian island of Ruhnu have received coronavirus vaccines, ETV news show "Aktuaalne kaamera" (AK) reported Monday night.