A plan is in place to reach patients within 4 minutes

Dubai Ambulance saves 2,576 cases of "cardiac arrest" in 18 months

  • The idea of ​​"my city will help me" emerged through the handling of cases by field paramedics.

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  • Khalifa Al Drai: “(Madinaty is helping me) aims to reduce the death rates resulting from heart attacks.

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Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services responded to 2576 cases of cardiac arrest within 18 months.

"A plan has been implemented to ensure speedy access to stroke patients and accidents within a maximum of four minutes, which contributed to raising the survival rates," said the Foundation's executive director, Khalifa Al Drai.

Al-Dray explained, in a press statement, that the Foundation took into account, during the establishment and distribution of emergency points in the emirate, specific criteria, most notably the population density of the region, and choosing a site that guarantees the speed of exit and access to the communication site within a maximum of four minutes, which is among the fastest rates in the world.

He stated that "the Foundation launched the (My City Help Me) initiative to provide local and federal government agencies in the emirate with fixed CPR devices for use in rescuing dangerous cases of employees and auditors, and it included 159 local authorities in Dubai."

He continued: “The initiative aims to reduce the death rates resulting from heart attacks at the level of the emirate, especially that those whom the Foundation will train on immediate aid will be mobile paramedics, who can provide their services to the residents of the emirate wherever they are, in addition to developing and raising the readiness of government institutions to provide cardiac ambulance services. ».

He pointed out that the idea of ​​the initiative emerged through the treatment of field paramedics with similar cases, and heart patients' exposure to dangerous complications after having a heart attack, as a stroke may occur if the patient's family or close relatives do not rush to rescue him through CPR, which succeeds 95 percent. % To protect him from death.

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