Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 1480 in Riga 2009 on 15 December (pr. No 88 53) emergency medical service regulation Issued in accordance with the law of public administration facilities 16. the first paragraph of article i. General questions 1. Emergency medical assistance service (hereinafter service) is the Minister of Health's direct regulatory authority. 2. the aim is to implement a uniform national policy for emergency medical and disaster medicine. II. Service functions, responsibilities and rights 3. Has the following functions: 3.1. to organize and provide emergency medical assistance to the population of the pirmsslimnīc phase;
3.2. to organize training for emergency medical and first aid, as well as disaster medicine;
3.3. to plan a disaster medical system, to organize and provide emergency medical assistance in situations of emergency medical and disaster relief, as well as in case you need more than medical treatment services resources;
3.4. store medical equipment and medicines to State material reserves. 4. in order to implement certain functions has the following tasks: 4.1 to plan, manage, coordinate and provide emergency medical assistance to people in everyday life, the emergency medical situations and emergencies;
4.2. to plan, organize, and provide emergency medical assistance at the hospital's request, if you need more than medical treatment services resources;
4.3. emergency medical situations to organize the transfer of persons and the insertion of medical institution, which may provide the necessary medical assistance;
4.4. to coordinate and provide medical evacuation;
4.5. in cooperation with local authorities to coordinate the medical institutions in disaster medical plans;
4.6. to prepare and annually update national disaster medical plan and submit it for approval to the Ministry of health;
4.7. ensuring cooperation with other emergency and disaster relief services involved;
4.8. to plan and coordinate action in the public health and public health emergencies;
4.9. to ensure the coordination of the World Health Organisation point function of the international health regulations;
4.10. to ensure the European Union's RACIAL-BICH (Biological and chemical terrorism early warning system) system and the functions of the contact point in Latvia;
4.11. to provide services of staff training and qualification of maintenance;
4.12. to organize other medical person, students, residents, and other emergency medical personnel involved in the provision of training;
4.13. to train and prepare people for participation in treatment in international humanitarian missions;
4.14. in cooperation with professional associations and organizations to prepare training programmes for emergency medical and first aid, disaster medicine, as well as first aid instructor training;
4.15. to train first aid trainers;
4.16. to issue, suspend or revoke the educational institution or tutor certificate, which allows training in first aid;
4.17 to plan and organize emergency medical and emergency public health situations workout training, and participate in, as well as organize practical training in first aid and emergency medical care;
4.18. to participate in regional, national and international civil protection training, disaster and crisis prevention and management planning and practical training;
4.19. materiāltehnisko to plan resources for emergency medical assistance;
4.20. ensure operational medical reserve building, maintenance and restoration, as well as to monitor their use;
4.21. to develop, Supplement and develop disaster medical system operation of the required information, records of State and local institutions of treatment facilities, as well as the security of the persons trained in first aid;
4.22. develop proposals for service and support for rescue services to medical equipment, its compatibility and upgrading;
4.23 to develop proposals on State material reserves, restoration, replacement, disposal and clarifying the nomenclature;
4.24 store, inventory and restore medical devices and medicinal materials reserves, as well as organize their enforcement;
4.25. in cooperation with the national armed forces to develop proposals for national armed forces security with medical equipment and organize training in the use of the equipment;
4.26. to participate in the drafting of legislation and opinions of the other institutions of authority made by the existing legislation;
4.27. to inform the public of emergency medical assistance and preventive measures in public health;
4.28. in accordance with the competency to deal with natural or legal persons complaints, applications and proposals;
4.29. perform other legal tasks. 5. Has the following rights: 5.1. legislation and in accordance with the procedure laid down in the case, to request and receive, free of charge from State and local institutions and authorities the task of treatment required for the implementation of the information and documents, as well as to ask individuals to provide professional tasks required for the implementation of the information and documents;
5.2. According to competence to cooperate with national regulatory authorities, individuals and private law legal persons, as well as foreign institutions;
5.3. close interdepartmental agreement;
5.4. the laws and regulations in order to make purchases for the functioning of the authority;
5.5. to provide paid services, receive donations, donations and foreign financial assistance;
5.6. in accordance with the competence to organise seminars, conferences and congresses;
5.7. to publish information and promotional materials and to provide the media information on the competence of service issues;
5.8. call in experts to perform the service tasks;
5.9. other specific legislation. III. structure of the service staff headed by Director 6. The Director is appointed and released from the post of Health Minister. Deputy Director can be. 7. the Director shall be laid down in the Authority's internal organisational structure. 8. the service can create multi purpose of territorial unit regional hospital hospital help the crew area. 9. the territorial unit is headed by a head of the territorial Department. The head of the territorial Department recruiting and dismissal of the Director. IV. activities of the service provision of the rule of law and reporting 10. Service activities are the rule of law provides the Director. The Director is responsible for the management decisions for the creation and operation of the system. 11. the officers decisions and actual action may be challenged, by submitting the submissions to the Director. Decision of the Director may appeal to the Court. 12. the decisions of the Director (excluding this provision the decision referred to in paragraph 11) and actual action may be challenged in the Ministry of health. The Ministry of health decision may appeal to the Court. 13. the service not less frequently than once a year, give the Health Minister's overview of regulatory functions and services for public funds. V. closing question 14. Be declared unenforceable: 14.1. Cabinet of Ministers of 11 October 2005, Regulation No 761 "disaster Medical Center Charter" (Latvian journal, 2005, nr. 164; 2008, 106 no; 2009, 17, no. 147);
14.2. The Cabinet of Ministers on 27 January 2009, the provisions of no. 92 "emergency medical assistance service Charter" (Latvian journal, 2009, 17, no. 147). Prime Minister v. Minister of health B dombrovsky. Brown»