‘Implementation of Rescue 1122 project started in Punjab’
By Saad Ahmad

RAWALPINDI—Director General Punjab Emergency Services (Rescue 1122) Dr. Rizwan Naseer said that after the inauguration of Emergency Services by the special interest of President General Pervez Musharraf and Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, the implementation on the project has been started throughout the province.
He expressed these views in a press briefing organized about awareness for emergency Management system and Performance of Rescue 1122 here on Tuesday.
Addressing to the media personnel Dr. Rizwan Naseer, DG (Rescue 1122), briefed the working procedure of Control Room, he informed that 1122 has been declared emergency toll free number.
Any emergency call received on this number is responded immediately through effective wireless communication system by nearest Rescue station.
The control Room monitors response time when a call is received till the Ambulances reach at incident site. It is working on special designed software, which evaluates even category of genuine and fake call.
The mock exercises of Medical cover and firefighting were also shown to the press.
Rescue 1122 Rawalpindi, responded 302 Emergency Calls out of total received 21517 calls since the Service is formally inaugurated in Rawalpindi city.
It has been observed that trained Emergency Medical Technicians managed 140 Emergencies of Road Traffic Accidents with efficient and effective response, rescue, medical treatment and safe transportation.
Patients were not only timely shifted to hospitals but they were given first aid during hospitalizations to minimize the morbidity and mortality by giving emergency medical care in first hour i.e. Golden hour.
40 fire emergencies were managed professionally, one of the fires broke out three shops due to short circuit at Haji Chowk in Sadiqabad market. The services received emergency call of fire at 1:34 am, reached the sport in five minutes and extinguished the fire within minimum possible-time.
Another fire broke out at Suzuki stop Rehmatabad, which was responded in seven minutes and extinguished with three fire vehicles.
The services took part into two major incidents of Bomb blast in the first week at Qasim Market and RA Bazaar and shifted 18 expired and 20 critically injured victims to Allied Hospitals of Rawalpindi.