The importance of timely and high-quality emergency medical care of population is undoubted. The increasing total morbidity at national level requires health care to be supported by needed number of medical workers per capita and their needed professional competencies. However, current working conditions of personnel of emergency stations and medical emergency teams in terms of professional workload and legal responsibility have no measure with low level of wages and social benefits. This situation resulted in massive outflow of specialists and reduction of the number of hospitals and medical emergency stations. Then necessity in developing constructive approaches to resolve current situation is obvious. The article considers problem of low financial support of personnel of medical emergency stations in order to identify and systematize impacting factors. The dynamics of population morbidity and the number of hospitals and ambulance stations was revealed. The system of payroll accounting of personnel of emergency stations, including special social benefits and assessment of professional workload was analyzed. The factors affecting the number of ambulance personnel were determined. The necessity to improve normative legal framework regulating wage level and social benefits for this category of medical workers and ambulance drivers is substantiated.

emergency medical care, personnel, professional workload, wages, special social benefits, legal liability, legal regulation.