The speed of intuition led a team of paramedics at the National Ambulance to save the life of a 51-year-old Filipina woman, who was struggling between life and death, unconscious as a result of inhaling carbon monoxide gas, leaking from an accident at a house next to her in an area in the regions. Northern.
The beginning of the story began when a worker returned after a night shift to his home to discover that four of his colleagues were in a faint state.He immediately called the National Ambulance Operations Room via the number 998, who quickly dealt with the communication, and sent a team of paramedics to the place of the sum.
The team found, after arriving in less than 7 minutes, the spread of carbon monoxide gas inside the victims' house, likely leaking due to a malfunction in a generator, and after taking the necessary precautions, the national ambulance team was able to take them to a safe area, and provide them with first aid. Three of them regained consciousness, reducing their injuries from critical to moderate, while the fourth placed an oxygen tube.
After the ambulance team completed the rescue operation and took them to hospitals for treatment, the team was to leave the place, but the team leader was skeptical that there were other possible casualties in a house adjacent to the victims' house, and the police that were present at the moment, in ways that The door of the house, but no one responded, prompting them to enter, to find a woman lying on the ground in a faint due to inhalation of carbon monoxide leaked from the scene.
Immediately, the medical team took her to a safe area and provided emergency aid to the woman, who almost died out without timely intervention. She was immediately transported by ambulance to the hospital and saved to return to normal life.
The patient, Gina Dumitita, said after her recovery that she "works in the area of hair cutting, and returned on the day of the accident from her work at night, and slept and did not realize what happened to her only after waking up in the hospital," expressing her thanks and gratitude to the National Ambulance for its humanitarian role and the high efficiency of the ambulance team "She believes that" if she were in a country other than the UAE, she would probably not be alive and no one would pay attention to her rescue if she was hit by the same incident. "
For his part, the CEO of the National Ambulance, Ahmed Saleh Al-Hajri, stressed that since the beginning of the work of the national ambulance in the northern areas, his medical and ambulatory cadres have had many difficult experiences and humanitarian situations, which have burdened their experience in how to deal with such kind of incidents, and always think on a large scale, Always look for potential out-of-sight casualties in the vicinity of accidents.
Al-Hajri expressed his happiness to provide a hand in a timely manner to the patient and to be able to save her life before her death, praising the efficiency of ambulance cadres and professional handling of such situations and situations, stressing that the team's work falls within their ambulatory and humanitarian duties, an action expected from each medic He works with us. "
He pointed out that the speed of response is an important element of the national ambulance when responding to emergencies, and save the lives of patients and injured, and the earlier the intervention the less severe complications.
The National Ambulance has been providing round-the-clock ambulance services in the Northern Emirates since 2014 through qualified cadres and ambulance teams equipped with a modern fleet of ambulances and advanced equipment, in accordance with the highest standards of excellence for pre-hospital. It also allows residents of the Northern Emirates to request emergency ambulance services via number 998 and the National Ambulance application NA998 for smartphones.