RAWALPINDI: Punjab’s emergency service, Rescue 1122 Rawalpindi will now have motorcycle ambulances as 50 motorbikes have been provided to Rescue Rawalpindi. The new ambulance service comprising of 100 motorbikes would be introduced in the Rawalpindi division while 36 medical technicians have been inducted into the motorbike ambulance service for the city. Dr Abdul Rehman said that the motorbike ambulance service would play a pivotal role to meet emergency situations in populated areas. Replying to a question, he said that the technicians hired for motorbike ambulances services had been trained on modern lines in Turkey. “For patients in critical conditions, these emergency motorcycle ambulances would carry the patient out on a stretcher to the point accessible for ambulances”, he said.

Source: Pakistan Today December 19, 2017 17:26 UTC