Ideally, the emergency doctor, paramedic and ambulance driver should be based at the same ambulance station. Where this is not possible, emergency doctors are collected from the hospital after being alerted. This leads to considerable time delays. That is why we are developing an emergency ambulance that emergency doctors can drive to the scene of an emergency independently. The vehicle is presented to the public for the first time in 1979 at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main. In order to accelerate the spread of the NEF, we donate one NEF each to the four aid organisations Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe and Malteser Hilfsdienst in Bonn in 1980.

Today, NEFs are an integral part of the rescue service.

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