Pakistan rescue 1122 helped over 151000 victims since its launch: Daily.pk

Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue1122) Director General Dr. Rizwan Naseer reviewed the mid-year data of the Service in a meeting held to evolve a strategy for effective emergency preparedness and identify gaps to further enhance the performance of the Pakistan's first trained emergency service.

The data revealed that the Service rescued over 1,51,044 victims of emergencies while carrying out 1,58,126 rescue operations since its inception in October, 2004, while maintaining its average response time was less than seven minutes.The Service is now operational in the all major cities of Punjab which include Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Murree, Sialkot, Gujranwala, Sargodha and Sahiwal. The total number of emergency calls responded by the Rescue 1122 were 1,58,126 which included 1,06,829 emergency calls in Lahore, 15,171 in Faisalabad, 4,152 in Rawalpindi, 9,954 in Multan, 7,237 in Bahawalpur, 4,159 in Dera Ghazi Khan, 4,666 in Rahim Yar Khan, 3,207 in Sahiwal, 471 in Murree, 640 in Sialkot and 1,640 in Gujranwala. The emergency calls to which the Rescue 1122 responded included 43% road traffic accident, 53% medical emergencies, 3% fire incidents, 0.29% building collapse incidents and 0.08% explosions.

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