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COIMBATORE: Phone number “100” of the city police control room is set to play a vital role in preventing deaths on roads under a programme called Emergency Victim Assistance. Following a fervent call by City Police Commissioner K.C. Mahali, hospitals in the city pledged on Saturday their support to rush medical help to the victims on a call from the control room. The broad agreement reached after a police-hospitals meeting was that the health care institutions would form a network with the city police on rushing ambulances to the accident spot. When the public informed the control room of an accident, it would, in turn, inform a hospital nearest to the spot. The police would serve as a vital link between the hospitals and those in need of emergency care. The Commissioner also said he would prepare a directory of hospitals, doctors and police officials and their phone numbers and distribute these among the shops along roads. The shopkeepers could also inform the control room, which would use the proposed network to help in rescuing the injured. Mr. Mahali pointed out that Coimbatore already had a good record of 25 hospitals providing trauma care, equipped with ambulances. “We need to reduce the response time. No one should bleed to death on the roads for want of emergency care within the Golden Hour,” he said. Leading the hospitals’ response, chairman of K.G. Hospital G. Bakthavathasalam said: “We agree to provide ambulances and paramedics to give first aid and rush the injured to hospital. Let us also give free treatment for the first one hour.” Gem Hospital offered its mobile clinic that could even conduct a quick scan of the injured. President of Kovai Medical Center and Hospital said the police could use 10 ambulances the hospital was already operating to help accident victims. It was also decided that a meeting to review and make improvements to the programme would be held every Sunday.
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