New services for heart patients to be launched

The Dubai Police and Ambulance Services Centre will soon launch new services for heart patients.

Khalifa Hassan bin Dari, Executive Director of Dubai Ambulance Services Centre, said that at the initiative of Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander-in-chief of the Dubai Police, for the electronic link between the Operation Room of the Dubai Police and heart patients of critical condition, the Health Authority in Dubai is taking measures to implement the system soon after the completion of experiments and selection of suitable programmes.

He confirmed that the Rescue Service Centre officials are conducting experiments on the new service for heart patients.

Under the programme, the heart patients will be provided small size alarm devices, which will help them call the ambulance by pressing a button as officials in the Dubai Operation room will be able to determine the location of the patient using the GIS and send the ambulance to the patient.

The second system includes programming of the mobile phone of the patient, linking it to the operation room of the Dubai Police. On pressing the button of their mobile phones or calling 999 a message will go to a family member, emergency centre in addition to ambulance car which will be rushed to the patient’s house.

Dari said that the Ambulance Services Centre in collaboration with the Dubai Police is also preparing a database, including the heart patients with crucial cases so that rescue teams could reach the locations of the patients and have full information about the patient health condition.

The Ambulance Services Centre launched an Intensive Unit mobile cars last year which travel on Dubai roads to provide services to all patients.

The vehicles are well-equipped to transmit information about the heart patient’s blood pressure, diabetes and other data to the hospital.

The rescue officials have mobile phones so they can contact the emergency section of Rashid Hospital.
source:www.khaleejtimes.com