VIJAYAWADA: Interlinking of ‘108’ ambulance service with the emergency medicine and casualty wing of Vijayawada Government General Hospital (GGH) is showing positive results. The pilot project, started on February 18, has helped save at least 1,400 lives in the last one month.
Around 60 to 80 emergency cases are reported in Vijayawada GGH through ‘108’ ambulances. Critical care and emergency cases reported by ‘108’ were being directly shifted to the hospital where casualty medical officers used to admit them based on the bed availability. Patients were made to wait for at least 30 minutes outside the casualty which badly impacted their chances of survival.
