Pay is meager, and the workload is excessive. Ambulance drivers in the Rostov region have said goodbye to the residents of their district: they will be leaving their jobs starting in the New Year.

Ambulance drivers of the Central Regional Hospital Sholokhov district They recorded a video addressing residents of their district. According to them, hospital management is keeping one team on duty for the entire district, sending a second to transport patients to neighboring towns.  

"They force us to work overtime—we risk not only our own lives, but also the lives of patients and other road users."“— says the man in the video.  

Drivers say their vehicles are not being repaired, effectively making them "criminals" because they're driving vehicles that are inoperable. Even the heating doesn't work, causing the drivers to get sick.

Their salary is "pittance," less than 20 rubles, and their responsibilities are too numerous. Therefore, they decided not to sign a new employment contract. Therefore, the drivers will be laid off starting next year. 

“We are probably saying goodbye to you - this is our first and last appeal to you", says the man in the video. May God grant that others will take our place and work better than us.” 

NeMoskva reported on the catastrophic state of emergency services in various Russian regions. Both medics and drivers Perm's Kudymkar require recalculate their salaries, the amount of which also does not reach 20 thousand. And in Tyumen paramedics forced drive the cars themselves to make up for the shortage of ambulance drivers.