DERA ISMAIL KHAN:Rescue 1122, the district emergency service, responded to a total of 141 emergencies during the last week under the supervision of district emergency officer Awais Babar.
Sharing the weekly performance report, the Rescue 1122 spokesman said on Monday that the district emergency service tackled different kinds of emergencies over the week, which included 90 medical, 34 road accidents, four bullet injuries or violence, one drowning, and one blast incident.
During these emergencies, he said that a total of 131 patients were rescued.
He said the control room received a total of 22632 emergency calls, including 22932 for information or drop calls and 18121 fake or irrelevant calls.
He said that emergency service also provided assistance in nine referral-related emergencies in which eight patients were shifted from one hospital to another within the district while one patient was taken to another district’s hospital.
He said the Rescue teams were fully equipped with all necessary equipment and had been efficiently rendering their services during emergencies.