CZE/AUT - KOT-Zdr Pandur II CZ (obrněné zdravotnické vozidlo)

KOT-Zdr Pandur II CZ

The vehicle is designed to provide medical security for ground forces conducting combat and special missions in the military and non-military threat of the Czech Republic. The transporter is able to follow combat (mechanized infantry) units and identify the wounded during the day, night and reduced visibility. Provides rapid transport of the wounded from combat operations to the place of first aid. The KOT-Zdr equipment enables extraordinary medical interventions to be performed directly in a moving vehicle. In an emergency, some acute interventions can be performed with the car stationary.

The KOT-Zdr crew consists of three people: the team leader, a paramedic and a driver, who also acts as a collector of the wounded or operates the charging set. The device allows the transport of the following number of injured persons:
- four lying or
- eight seated or
- two lying and four sitting

The chassis and propulsion system of the transporter is identical to the basic combat version KBVP Pandur II CZ. In the middle and rear of the vehicle there is a raised superstructure for the transport of the wounded and medical equipment. The internal height of the body is 1650 mm. In the left front sits the driver and commander. A paramedic sits with his back to the direction of travel at the engine-transmission compartment bulkhead. The basic medical equipment of the transporter includes:
- modular ECG system Corpuls ³ (defibrillator/pacemaker with monitor and ECG)
- two automatic resuscitation devices Oxylog 2000
- AMBU Mark IV hand-held resuscitation device
- AMBU Twin mechanical foot extractor
- battery extractor Laerdal LSU 4000
- Two 10-liter oxygen tanks with distribution for 4 people
- refrigerator with a capacity of 10 l
- four folding stretchers
- vacuum mattress
- set for spine fixation
- set of vacuum plates

Company tests of the KOT-Zdr prototype were completed on 13 May 2011. Subsequent control tests were scheduled for 16 May to 22 July 2011. A total of four KOT-Zdr transporters were purchased for the needs of the Army of the Czech Republic. Two cars were delivered in 2011 for the amount of CZK 87,828,043, the remaining two copies followed in 2012 for the amount of CZK 89,585,453. KOT-Zdr were introduced into armaments 41. and 42. mechanized battalion.

The prototype of the KOT-Zdr Pandur II CZ not long after its completion on the corporate image..

KOT-Zdr Pandur II CZ of equipment 41. mechanized battalion, march 2012.

Photo: Jan Kouba.

KOT-Zdr Pandur II CZ, Dressing station, 41st Mechanized Battalion, Military Hideout Brdy, Mud 2015, June 2015.

by Josef Holek