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Medical emergencies top 999 calls
ABU DHABI - Medical emergencies comprise the majority of calls received by the Abu Dhabi Police emergency hotline number 999.
According to Lieutenant Colonel Abdulla Ali Al Qadhi, Commander of Operations at the Central Operations Room of the Abu Dhabi Police, most of the cases received by the Central Operations are related to medical emergencies resulting from incidents like fire, drowning and suicide attempt.
“There are also criminal cases and traffic accidents in which medical intervention is needed to save lives,” Lt Col Al Qadhi told 999 magazine of the Ministry of Interior. In such emergency situation, an ambulance is deployed and patient is taken to the nearest government hospital. As standard procedure, response time in most cases does not exceed 10 minutes. Al Qadhi said that a request for ambulance is classified by them as ‘very important’ and response time is critical to save lives. However, not all cases reported as emergency are urgent, he said and urged the public to be clear in explaining each case to the operations team as ambulance service is only meant to deal with real emergencies.
“(This) could delay response to other, genuine emergencies,” he stressed.
Dr Harold Shim, emergency consultant and acting head of the Emergency Section at the Shaikh Khalifa Medial City, said that the hospital’s emergency section receives an average of 5000 - 7000 cases every month. Of these, 2900 are of critical condition having serious injuries, 1800 have slight injuries and 1100 are cases involving children.
He said non-emergency cases such as ear pain, cough, symptoms of influenza and wounds could be seen at the outpatient clinics. — olivia@khaleejtimes.com
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