RAWALPINDI: Punjab’s emergency service, Rescue 1122 Rawalpindi will now have motorcycle ambulances as 50 motorbikes have been provided to Rescue Rawalpindi.
Talking to the APP, Rawalpindi District Emergency Officer (DEO) Dr Abdul Rehman stated that an inauguration ceremony would be held here by the end of this month in this regard.
He said that the motorbike ambulance service was an initiative of the Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and the service was introduced in Lahore while considering the congested and narrow streets of the city where ambulances could not go easily.
“The moto-ambulances would reach narrow streets in the congested areas of the city here to provide patients with the first response”, he said.
The respondents would have first-aid kits and proper medical knowledge. The new ambulance service comprising of 100 motorbikes would be introduced in the Rawalpindi division while 36 medical technicians have been inducted into the motorbike ambulance service for the city.
Dr Abdul Rehman said that the motorbike ambulance service would play a pivotal role to meet emergency situations in populated areas.
Replying to a question, he said that the technicians hired for motorbike ambulances services had been trained on modern lines in Turkey. These motorcycle ambulances will be equipped with a foldable stretcher, trauma kits, burn kits, automatic external defibrillators, portable oxygen, a pulse odometer and a glucose meter.
“For patients in critical conditions, these emergency motorcycle ambulances would carry the patient out on a stretcher to the point accessible for ambulances”, he said.
