LAHORE: Emergency Services Department Secretary Dr Rizwan Naseer reviewed the operational performance of all districts in a meeting on Thursday, with all officers concerned in attendance.
The provincial monitoring officer informed the meeting that Rescue-1122 rescued 172,176 people while responding to 176,401 emergencies across the province in April 2024. He said that 113,827 emergencies were related to medical, 41,371 were road traffic accidents, 3,950 crime incidents, 3,449 delivery cases, 2,793 fire incidents, 1,638 occupational injuries, 1,034 animal rescue, 83 drowning cases, 31 structural collapses and 8,740 miscellaneous operations in Punjab.
He stated that 327 people died in 41,371 road traffic crashes in the province during the last month. Majority of traffic accidents 8,383 occurred in Lahore in which 30 people died. Similarly, 2,955 accidents were reported in Faisalabad, 2,612 in Multan, 2,333 in Gujranwala, 1,581 in Sheikhupura and 1,423 in Rawalpindi, while the remaining 22,084 accidents took p
lace in 30 districts of Punjab. Similarly, the majority of fire incidents took place in major districts i.e., 574 incidents in Lahore, 181 in Faisalabad, 146 in Multan, 141 in Sheikhupura, 117 in Rahim Yar Khan and 116 in Rawalpindi.
Dr Rizwan expressed his concern over 327 deaths in 41,371 road crashes. He requested motorbike riders to adopt the road safety measures and reduce their speed limit as per international love-30 campaign adopted all over the world.