Rescue 1122 operations 56,314 victims of different emergencies rescued in May

Up to 56,314 victims of different emergencies were rescued by the Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) while conducting 54,923 rescue operations in May alone, with an average response time of less than seven minutes. The emergency calls to which Rescue 1122 responded to include: 19,712 road accidents, 25,714 medical emergencies, 1,941 fire incidents, 2,326 crimes, 125 drowning incidents, 49 building collapses, 20 explosions and 5036 miscellaneous operations.
Punjab Rescue Director General Doctor Rizwan Naseer carried out a performance review of emergency operations in all 36 districts of the Punjab to ensure uniform standard of the service and smooth emergency services delivery without discrimination. The Provincial Monitoring Cell told the director general that emergencies of heat strokes are increased during summer season in different districts of the Punjab. On which, presiding over a meeting of rescue officers and officials at Rescue 1122 Headquarters, Director General Naseer said that after saving lives of over 3.3 million emergency victims through effective emergency management system, "now we are moving towards Promoting Safety by Community Action for Disaster Response Emergencies, training Community Emergency Response Teams for Community Based Disaster Risk Management and implementation of safe community development initiatives so that we can establish socially responsible; healthy, resilient and safer communities in Pakistan".