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Two
new services unveiled by Apollo
EHM
Team
Emergency
care is acknowledged to be the best in United States, and Apollo
Hospitals has been working closely with the American Academy for
Emergency Medicine in India, to establish Hyderabad as a model city
for quality emergency care in the country
On
the occasion of its 13th anniversary, Apollo Hospitals recently
launched two new services comprising an easy to remember emergency
telephone number (1066) and community first-aid providers (Life
Savers Club).
The
number ’1066’ is the first emergency network in the country
to get an easy to remember four-digit emergency telephone number.
The number has been already installed in Hyderabad and the same
facility is to be extended in New Delhi, Chennai and Madurai. Over
the next three months, this number will be available across the
country, according to sources from the hospital. Hyderabad today,
has ‘Hospital on Wheels’ placed at eight strategic locations
in the twin cities - Jubilee Hills, Hyderguda, Vikrampuri, Kukatpally,
Malakpet, Mehdipatnam, Public Gardens and Santosh Nagar. On calling
1066, one can reach the central control room located in Jubilee
Hills, which in turn is linked to all the hospitals on wheels and
emergency rooms at different locations by a dedicated wireless system.
On
receiving a call, the hospital on wheels nearest to the victim is
immediately dispatched and the emergency room of that particular
area alerted. This enables the hospital to reach an emergency victim
at the earliest and also the emergency rooms to receive and manage
the victim without any time lag. The pre-hospital emergency services
within the twin cities are being offered free of cost.
 Emergency
care is acknowledged to be the best in United States, and Apollo
Hospitals has been working closely with the American Academy for
Emergency Medicine in India, to establish Hyderabad as a model city
for quality emergency care in the country. To bring the existing
standards close to the American standards, Hyderabad needed an easy
to remember telephone number similar to 911 in USA.
Emergencies
mostly occur in the community away from doctors and medical facilities.
Precious time is lost before the victim is shifted to a hospital,
which could be fatal. To ensure immediate care, Apollo has taken
up the responsibility of training individuals in the community in
first-aid and providing them with first-aid kits. The entire mobile
police force of the twin cities (Blue Colts, Rakshaks and Mobile
Traffic Police) have already been trained and equipped to provide
immediate first-aid. The hospital has now taken up schools, colleges
and auto drivers and hopes to have at least 3000 ‘Life Savers’
in the twin cities by the end of year. These trained Life Savers,
the pre-hospital emergency care personnel, and the in-hospital emergency
personnel together form the ’Life Savers Brigade’ for
Hyderabad. To provide an opportunity for all these, members interact
with each other, discuss success and failure in various incidents
and identify methods of further improving services.
And
to keep them motivated to react on time, every time, Apollo Hospitals
has launched the Life Savers Club. With the launch of these two
components of emergency care, Hyderabad is on its way to becoming
a model city for emergency care in the country, claim the hospital
sources. “Although Apollo has been the driving force behind
this, the Department of Telecommunications, the Police Department
in the Twin Cities, Lifenet EMS International, United Kingdom, Royal
College of General Practitioners, United Kingdom, and the American
Academy for Emergency Medicine have all contributed significantly
and helped and guided us reach this stage,” revealed the sources.
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