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Chennai: The Apollo hospital launched India's first fully-equipped two-wheeler ambulance service called 'Apollo First' in Chennai on Saturday (February 5) to beat traffic snarls and provide essential emergency care during the crucial time when somebody meets with an accident. "Irrespective of all that we do with the siren, still there is a lot of time that is being wasted because of traffic block. So, for that we have created this two-wheeler ambulance 'Apollo First', so that two-wheeler can negotiate itself and go to patient care almost immediately and attend to his urgent need. The ambulance will follow if it is necessary for him to be shifted to the hospital. So the two-wheeler ambulance to beat the traffic and to reach the patient at the earliest is the first.We are launching it across the country," said PC Reddy, Apollo chairman. The TWA is the brain-child of the hospital's National Network Emergency Services Director, Dr Hari Prasad. It has been conceptualised to manoeuvre efficiently through congested roads and provide emergency care to patients during the crucial 'post platinum ten minutes' and the 'golden hour'. The drivers of 'Apollo First' and the pillion-rider will be paramedics trained to handle all
trauma emergencies
from fractures to shock and even perform a cardiac pulmonary resuscitation
till the four-wheeler ambulance arrives.
Police Commissioner R Nataraj while flagging off the TWAs alongwith the
Apollo chairman, pointed out that despite the metropolis having around
250 government and private ambulances, a number of lives are lost due
to the delay in reaching the patient. The TWAs will not only handle road
accidents during peak hours but will also reach those places where the
movement of regular ambulances was otherwise restricted. |
