Rescue service activities reviewed
Rescue workers continue search operations in Dera Ghazi Khan. Around 120 of them are participating in relief work amid monsoon rains and floods. Photo: Express
The local chapter of rescue services claimed to have protected 644 people in November.
While giving briefing to a monthly meeting in Khanewal on Friday, which was presided over by the District Emergency Officer, Dr Khalid Mahmood, the In Charge of the Control Room, Muhammad Naeem, said the rescue service had received 4,657 calls with 646 of them of an emergency nature.
Giving further details during the briefing, Naeem said as many as 120 people were provided with first aid while 420 victims shifted to hospitals.
The average time of response was limited to seven minutes only. About 530 patients were removed from small to big hospitals under the patient referral service extended by the Punjab government, it was maintained.
Seventeen training workshops were organized in various colleges and schools and private and government institutions across the district.
The District Emergency Officer, Khalid Mehmood, while talking to the media, appealed to people to use fog lights while driving in order to reduce accidents due to fog.
Rescue safety officers Mohammad Yasir Raza, Kanwar Faheem Ahmed and Sohail Akhtar, station coordinators Muhammad Saleem, Samiullah and Muhammad Kamran and media coordinator Rashid Chaudhry attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2022.