Rescue 1122

 

INTRODUCTION

The Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) is the largest emergency humanitarian service of Pakistan with infrastructure in all 36 districts of Punjab and is providing technical assistance to other provinces. Rescue 1122 has rescued over2.57 million victims of emergencies through its emergency Ambulance, Rescue &Fire services and Community Emergency Response Teams while maintaining its average response time of 7 minutes and standards in all districts of Punjab province with population of over 80 million. The Punjab Emergency Service Act was promulgated in 2006 to provide legal cover to the Emergency Services Reforms initiated in 2004 from Lahore. Start of Rescue1122 was necessitated by failure of repeated attempts to revitalize and modernize the old organizations mandated for emergency management. Now as a result of the performance of Rescue 1122 during emergencies and disasters in recent years, it has also been notified as the Disaster Response Force by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Government of the Punjab. The District Emergency Officer is responsible for the day to day operational management and administration of the Service in the Districts under the supervision of District Coordination Officer who is also the Chairman of the District Emergency Board. The Board has become an effective organization for improving inter-departmental coordination and prevention of emergencies based on review of emergency data. The Director General who is the Chief Executive Officer of the organization is mainly responsible for overall operations, monitoring to ensure uniformity & quality amongst districts, recruitment & training, research, planning and development. Rescue 1122 is not just providing the emergency victims with the basic right to timely emergency care but believes in “saving lives and changing minds”. This is vividly reflected in the mission statement of the Service which is “development of safer communities through establishment of an effective system for emergency preparedness, response and prevention”. In order to establish safer communities, Rescue 1122 is implementing the Community Safety Program which includes capacity building of community emergency response teams, school safety program, training of citizens in life saving skills and collaboration with Chamber of Commerce & Industries for fire and work safety. The details of Community Emergency Response Teams and citizens trained in Life Saving Skills are attached. The Emergency Services Academy, the first training institute of its kind in Pakistan, has been established as a center for imparting emergency medical training, firefighting, collapse structure search & rescue, high angle &confined space rescue, water rescue and other emergency management skills.

 

History

Rescue 1122 was initially launched as an ambulance service from Lahore in 2004. Successively, the service was not only extended to all 36 districts of the Province Punjab, but also crossed the provincial boundaries.

 

Objectives

Rescue 1122 become founded with the goal of setting up a powerful device of preparedness, intervention, protection, and prevention of emergencies; they help in the development of socially accountable, healthy, resilient, and secure communities. Their key targets are:

1. Offer the right to activate emergency care by handing over super emergency services according with worldwide requirements.

2. Behavior research to propose proof-primarily based emergency preparedness strategies to related businesses.

3. Assist to construct a response groups that is socially accountable by using raising recognition, enrolling, training, and coordinating volunteers for emergency preparedness, reaction, and prevention.

It has accomplished a mean response time of seven minutes that is similar to that of developed international locations.

 

Services provided by Rescue 1122

·         Ambulances services

·         Rescue services

·         Fire services

·         Community services

BBlog By: Afaq Sarbaz (BS 6 Morning)

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