KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday launched an emergency service Rescue 1122 in Karachi.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah inaugurated the service, which is aimed at providing immediate medical aid to the people and shifting them to hospitals in emergencies.
The inauguration ceremony was organised at the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Sports Complex and was attended by provincial ministers, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, Saeed Ghani, Bari Pitafi, Shahela Raza, CM Advisors, Murtaza Wahab, Haji Rasool Bux, the host of the programme, Special Assistants Waqar Mehdi, Qasim Siraj Soomro, World Bank Country Director Najy Benhassine, DG PDMA Salman Shah, Asif Memon and others.
Initially, 50 ambulances have been provided for the service which will be increased to 230 across the province.
The service will be initiated in other divisions and districts in the second phase.
Read more: Buzdar inaugurates rescue 1122 ambulance service for 79 Tehsils
Murad Ali Shah said it would be made `a complete package of rescue, relief and rehabilitation’ by connecting it with fire brigade service and trauma centers all over Sindh.
“50 ambulances out of 230 are being launched in the city in the first phase and later on the services would be expanded in other divisions and districts of the Province,” the CM announced.
Shah said that under the project, the next phase was to establish a Central Command and Control Center to coordinate and ensure the efficient use of the Rescue 1122 services. “Apart from a centralised command center, work on divisional level headquarters has also begun to operationalise them in a couple of months,” he vowed.
“The provincial government is keen to roll out a similar service to the other districts in the province,” Murad Ali Shah said and added “understand the scale of the emergency and how the province along with its people are vulnerable to climate change, natural and human disasters we are also under the process of preparing a mega project which will improve the delivery of emergency relief service across the whole province.”
The chief minister disclosed that a proposal for scaling up the rescue stations at all districts of Sindh was being negotiated with the World Bank – Insha Allah, it will be replicated in the remaining 24 districts of the province soon.
