Insurance Journal (2nd Quarter 2022)

Health Corner
Rana Naveed ur Rehman
MBA (HRM), Cert CII (UK)
Assistant Vice President (Health)
East West Insurance Co. Ltd
Emergency Response
Service in Pakistan
(Rescue 1122)
The purpose of this article is to create
awareness among public about
emergency response service in
Pakistan. Currently, we have a state of
the art emergency response service
(Rescue 1122) is functioning in
various cities of Punjab Province. The
service is fully equipped with latest
Ambulances, Firefighting equipment,
well-trained emergency staff and
emergency call responders on 1122.
The Punjab Emergency Service
(Rescue 1122) is the leading
emergency service of South Asia.
Rescue 1122 has been established
under the Punjab Emergency Service
A c t 2 0 0 6 f o r p r o f e s s i o n a l
management of emergencies such as
road traffic crashes, medical
emergencies, building collapse, fire,
hazardous material incidents,
explosions, flood & water rescue and
animal rescue etc. Rescue 1122 has
rescued millions of emergency
victims through its Emergency
Ambulance, Rescue & Fire services
a n d C o m m u n i t y E m e r g e n c y
Response Teams while maintaining
its swift response and standards in all
districts of Punjab province with an
estimated population of over 110
million.
The Emergency Services Academy
has also been established in Lahore to
ensure sustainable human resource
development of emergency services
in Pakistan which has so far trained
over 20,000 emergency services
personnel of all provinces of
Pakistan. The Pakistan Rescue Team
of this Academy is the first United
Nations INSARAG certified team in
South Asia. The Academy also
organized the first SAARC Rescue
Challenge.
This Emergency Rescue Service has
so far rescued over 9.3 million victims
of accidents and disasters and saved
losses over Rs. 490 billion by
providing timely response and
professional fire fighting in over
1 6 0 , 0 0 0 f i r e i n c i d e n t s . T h e
Motorbike Ambulance Service has
also been launched to further improve
emergency response in congested
areas and traffic jams. This Motorbike
service has responded over 700,000
emergencies with an average
response time of around 4 minutes
which is an achievement even
internationally.
Rescue 1122 has also established over
5000 Community Emergency
Response Teams (CERTs) in all
Union Councils of Punjab and also
started the Rescue Cadet Corps
(RCC) program to train over 1 million
Rescue Scout (Volunteers) to
established healthy, resilient and safer
communities in Pakistan.
Following are the core services
provided by Rescue 1122:
Ambulance Service
This is the most important function of
Rescue 1122 as over 97% emergency
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