Ambulance Driver Saves Man From Icy Water in Saratov Region

Saratov, March 18 – Oleg Kostin, the region’s health minister, said that ambulance driver Dmitry Panarin saved an elderly man in the Saratov region, after he was carried downstream by a flood.

According to him, at 11.45 am (10.45 Moscow time), the Ambulance Service (AMS) received a message that there was a man in the Chernava River, which had been swept away by a flood.

“(The ambulance driver), without hesitation, threw himself into the icy water and saved the victim. At the moment, the victim has been transferred to the intensive care unit of the Ivantievskaya Regional Hospital, where all the necessary medical care is provided. (Victim) A man born in 1946 Diagnosis: general hypothermia. The act of the ambulance driver Dmitry Panarin deserves special attention, and he will be rewarded from the Bashkortostan-Ivantievskaya Republic for a heroic deed, “Kostin wrote on his Telegram channel.