Dr. Raed Arafat and Firefighter Lt. Col Mircea Pintilie, co-founder Dr Adrian Lobonțiu, MD, FACS, Washington DC, United States of America[1]
Founded at
Târgu Mureș, Romania
Headquarters
Bucharest
Area served
Romania Republic of Moldova
Product
CareFlight
Method
EMS / Air Ambulance
Parent organization
Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations
Website
www.smurd.ro
SMURD is an emergency rescue service based in Romania. SMURD is a structure subordinated to the Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU). The name is the Romanian acronym for "Serviciul Mobil de Urgență, Reanimare și Descarcerare", which means Mobile Emergency Service for Reanimation and Extrication. It was created and has been coordinated since its inception by doctor Raed Arafat. The first SMURD unit was created in Târgu Mureș, a city in the center of Transylvania, in 1990. One of the notable co-founders is a Romanian Firefighter Lt. Col. Mircea Pintilie who coordinated the activity between firebrigades from the three countries, Romania, Norway and Great Britain.[2]
In October 1996, the service received legal recognition under the Military Firemen Corps law no.121. Until that date, it served as a national pilot center.
Now SMURD is a complementary service, with bases covering many parts of the country, still expanding. It deals with the worst emergency cases, all in a very good collaboration with the regular Ambulance Service (Serviciul de Ambulanţă). Also, HEMS (helicopter emergency medical system) was enforced in six cities (Târgu Mureș, Bucharest, Iași, Arad, Craiova and Constanța), while in other cities the system is only ambulance based. Depending on the situation, police and army helicopters are also being used.
The emergency system used by this service is based on the European 112 emergency phone number, now also used in Romania for all the emergencies (police, firefighters, ambulance).
^Act Adițional la Statutul Societății de Medicină de Urgență și Catastrofă din România Inregistrată în Registrul Persoanelor Juridice în baza Încheierii civile nr. 86/10.12.1991 a Judecătoriei Târgu Mureș
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