Supporting Karachi Electric Supply Company's flood relief activities, the Aman Foundation has deputed 15 personnel, including doctors and nurses, and four state-of-the-art ambulances in Thatta district. The paramedic personnel of the Aman Foundation in Thatta have treated over 5,168 patients in their two weeks of service in the region covering Makli, Bachao Band, Surjani and Sonda / Chiah (Kinjhar).
At the moment 20 Aman, Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances are deployed and working primarily as mobile clinics in various flood affected areas. A total of 120 Aman doctors and paramedic have been actively working in southern Punjab and all over Sindh for the last three weeks manning the mobile clinics. To date almost 25,000 flood affected people have been treated by these Aman medics.
Moreover, 20 water rescue boats were specially imported and deployed in different flooded parts of Sindh through Pakistan Navy, Air Force, Army and Civil administration's co-operation. The disease profile of patients visiting the Aman Foundation mobile clinics in KESC camps reflect that over 11 percent of the patients suffered from fever, 20 percent from flu, and 28 percent from skin infections.
Aman's Emergency Medical Service consists of a strategically positioned network of 100 state-of-the-art ambulances with doctors and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) on board to provide comprehensive, round-the-clock coverage to the city of Karachi. Since the start of its operations last year, Aman has the experience of handling 60,000 emergency medical interventions, many of them life saving.-PR