RESCUE 1122

     MARIAM DILAWAR

       BS 6( MORNING)

RESCUE 122:

Social welfare systems assist individuals and families through programs such as health care, food stamps, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and child care assistance. As we know from the start and read about everyday service delivery in Pakistan is not effective as it should be. Public sectors are not working efficiently. But despite these taboos and daunting odds, some institutions in Pakistan have managed to provide effective service delivery to the citizens of Pakistan.  

As in many other developing countries, emergency medical services, especially pre-hospital emergency care, have long been neglected in Pakistan. Consequently, patients are brought to the emergency departments by relatives or bystanders in private cars, taxis, or any other readily available mode of transportation. Ambulances, where they exist, have barely a stretcher and arrangements for oxygen supply. Modern emergency services are considered too costly for many countries. A model of pre-hospital emergency services called Rescue 1122 was established in the Punjab province of Pakistan, which has over 100 million human beings. Its undertaking changed into a socially responsible, healthy, resilient, and safer community by organizing a powerful device to prepare for an emergency, its reaction, protection, and prevention. The system is supported by government funding and provides a quality service.

PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY CARE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES:

In developing countries vertical, disease-focused interventions have traditionally been the focus of healthcare investments.

Emergency care and pre-hospital care are neglected in many developing countries, especially Pakistan. Emergency services assume greater importance where access block due to a variety of factors, such as lack of health insurance, leads to poor availability of preventive and routine healthcare.7 Healthcare needs, resources, and cultural context in developing countries are likely to impact the scope, structure, function, and modes of financing of emergency services. But the mode of services is provided in Pakistan by Rescue 1122. It’s a great change in the field of health sectors, especially those citizens who don’t afford their vehicles.

WHEN DID RESCUE 1122 START?

Rescue 1122 was initially launched as an ambulance service from Lahore in 2004 by Dr. Rizwan Naseer, an orthopedic surgeon by profession, Pakistan’s premier medical emergency services. Successively, the service was not only extended to all 36 districts of Punjab but also crossed the provincial boundaries. prior to 2004, there was no coordinated emergency clinical device in Pakistan. Rescue 1122 become established in that 12 months as a professional pre-health facility emergency provider.

In 2004, Rescue 1122 started out operations as an ambulance provider in Lahore. The carrier turned into sooner or later improved not simply to all thirty-six districts of the Province of Punjab, but also across provincial lines. It has now advanced into complete emergency care and safety advertising device that provides ambulance, catastrophe emergency reaction groups, fireplace, rescue, water rescue, and a more secure network application to over eighty million people.  The initial effort of Sir Naseer was focused on reviving the functions of the CDA, which led to the emergency preparedness and disaster management program of the government of Punjab. This was followed by the National emergency reforms formulated in 2001-02 which had the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the ministry of interior. However, the ten years struggle did not go waste but it proved helpful after that doctor Naseer with the help of that time Governor of Punjab Pervaiz Elahi, approved the Punjab Emergency and Ambulance Service Pilot Project.

 COURSES BY RESCUE 1122:

The main imitative of courses was to tell and provide a platform for awareness about the emergency services provided to the citizens in case of any emergency.

·         The four-month-long rescue course involves training emergency paramedics to administer Pre-hospital emergency care to victims of medical emergencies, accidents, and disasters.

·          The academy was established at a cost of PKR 981 million. To date, more than 7,000 rescuers have been trained and the average cost per trainee of PKR 19,902 is likely to go down as the program is scaled up (PEF).

TYPES OF EMERGENCY SERVICES PROVIDED BY RESCUE 1122:

 Main 4 types services provided by the rescue 1122.

RESCUE SERVICES:

It is established after the earth quack 2005. The main functions include:

·         Urban search and rescue in collapsed structures. And rescue from defined and deep spaces also includes animal and water rescue as well.

FREE SERVICES:

·         Established on a pilot basis in Lahore in June 2007 and it was established with the help of Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service of Scotland, which trained the first batch of officers.

Community Safety:

·         Fire safety prevention, Road Safety, Community emergency response team, safety education, Emergency training of citizens, collaboration with the chamber of commerce and industries, and Community action of disaster response.

Ambulance Services:

·         97 percent of calls are related to the ambulance service. An average response time is seven minutes and the main beneficiaries of this service are the victims of road traffic accidents. 

WHAT’S OUR INITIATIVE?

 Pakistan is among those countries where Disasters and emergencies often take place due to their geographical location. For mitigation and quick response along with Edhi and other Emergency response services, rescue 1122 is the most effective and leading health emergency service.  

RESCUE 1122 Is contributing towards building socially responsible, healthy, resilient, and safer communities. Rescue 1122 has rescued millions of emergency victims through its Emergency Ambulance, Rescue & Fire services, and Community Emergency Response Teams.

As a citizen of this country, we have some responsibility to help and As a Student of Public Sector Reforms, we took initiative regarding providing facilities to the citizens. Our initiative is to work on Rescue 1122 because we want to spread awareness to the university students in case of any emergency about how to avail the services of Rescue 1122 and about courses which are provided to the people. Because in Pakistan as a developing country we have lack of resources so our purpose within these resources how we provide better facilities to the society like in case of Heart attack, pregnant women and in case of accidents how we have to provide the first Aid.

What we will do?

·         We will visit the rescue 1122 department and will take interviews from upper to middle staff about challenges and human power. And we will ask How its important to provide awareness and sensitize citizens especially youth about first aid after the accident and in case of any emergency because the rescue response time is 7 minutes so within these 7 minutes what’s our responsibility.

·         Sensitize students about CADRE course (Community action for disaster response).

HOW WE WILL DO?

·         Meeting with Rescue team members.

·          Maximum 2 days’ Workshop Rescue team with students.

·         Awareness Session on First Aid and how Important it is.

FIRST AID:

References:

Waseem, H., Naseer, R., & Razzak, J. A. (2011). Establishing a successful pre-hospital emergency service in a developing country: experience from Rescue 1122 service in Pakistan. Emergency Medicine Journal, 28(6), 513-515.

Tahir, N., Naseer, R., Khan, S. M., Macassa, G., Hashmi, W., & Durrani, M. (2012). Road traffic crashes managed by Rescue 1122 in Lahore, Pakistan. International journal of injury control and safety promotion, 19(4), 347-350.

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