Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services confirmed that the New Year's celebrations passed without serious accidents, and that it handled 444 reports. The injuries varied between the severe, medium and minor, and the response time ranged between 4 and 5 minutes, except for the celebration sites where the ambulances and their staff were present.
The Foundation explained to "Emirates Today" that the total of communications received by the Foundation during New Year's Eve, from the evening of December 31, 2018 until the third of the first morning of January, beginning of 2020, reached 444 reports, with a number of 531 cases, as the single communication has It carries or includes more than one patient or case, and the number of severe cases reached 19 cases, medium 108 and minor 311, while traffic accidents 31 and other injuries reached 68 injuries and cases transferred to the Foundation’s vehicles 162 cases.
The Executive Director of the Foundation, Khalifa Al-Drai, said that the number of communications in the vicinity of Burj Khalifa reached 74, with a number of 108 cases, including one serious case, 19 medium and 72 minor injuries, and there were no injuries as a result of traffic accidents and there are 7 injuries for other reasons as the Foundation reported 20 Condition of its vehicles in and around the Burj Khalifa area.
He pointed out that the institution has equipped more than 1,200 ambulance staff over 24 hours, consisting of emergency doctors and technicians specializing in emergency medicine, their mission is to intervene urgently to save critical illnesses within the framework of activating rapid service and achieving the Foundation’s vision in implementing international ambulance services, stressing the Foundation’s keenness to Providing its services with a high professionalism.